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Gender, Religion, and Political Agency: Mapping the Field

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2016
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
doaj   +1 more source

Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 40-61, January 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Clarification des positions sur la laïcité et objectivation des idéologies, un double enjeu dans l’École et pour l’École

open access: yesÉducation et Socialisation, 2017
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
doaj   +1 more source

The sexual and theological ethics of gay marriage in France: a dialectic between autonomy and universalism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
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

open access: yesDisasters, Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Secularization, Evolution, and Politics [PDF]

open access: yesPolitics, Religion & Ideology, 2016
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
openaire   +3 more sources

Manifestations of the post-secular emerging within discourses of posthumanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper discusses the concepts of posthuman and post-secular in critical ...
Graham, Elaine L.
core  

Banal Nationalism, 30 Years On—A Review

open access: yes
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Michael Billig, Michael Skey
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Doctrine of Discovery in Religion and Indigenous Studies

open access: yesReligion Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

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