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Gender, Religion, and Political Agency: Mapping the Field
This paper provides an introductory review of the literature mapping the gendered analyses of the categories of secularism and secularization from a sociological point of view, with the aim of providing some coordinates and bibliographical references and
Alberta Giorgi
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Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
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The Ministry of National Education in France engaged in several important workstreams – secularitsm in School, digital literacy, encouragement to critial thinking). But some important issues have to be resolved.
Xavier Riondet, Bérengère Kolly
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The sexual and theological ethics of gay marriage in France: a dialectic between autonomy and universalism [PDF]
The debate on gay marriage has gathered pace globally and particularly in France. Here, the secularization of marriage as an ‘acte laïque’ has furthered progress towards a political and juridic recognition of gay marriage.
McCaffrey, E
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Theorising the politics of famine: Bangladesh in 1974
Abstract 1974 saw the first—and last—famine in independent Bangladesh. The disaster killed an estimated two per cent of the population and caused a crisis of legitimacy for the leadership of a nation that had won its independence only three years previously.
Naomi Hossain
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Secularization, Evolution, and Politics [PDF]
ABSTRACTThis article proposes three evolutionary games to study secularization. The games assume that there is a severe competition for a resource defined as the material wealth a society produces. Successful strategies emerge out of the process, become the authority, capture and allocate the resource. Individuals who prefer a heavier or lighter weight
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Manifestations of the post-secular emerging within discourses of posthumanism [PDF]
This paper discusses the concepts of posthuman and post-secular in critical ...
Graham, Elaine L.
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Banal Nationalism, 30 Years On—A Review
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Michael Billig, Michael Skey
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Examining the Doctrine of Discovery in Religion and Indigenous Studies
ABSTRACT Since the publication of Pagans in the Promised Land by Steven T. Newcomb (Shawnee/Lenape), scholarship on the Doctrine of Discovery has expanded significantly as a central issue in Indigenous law and politics. However, its implications remain underexamined in Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, and legal scholarship.
Adam D. J. Brett, Betty Hill
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