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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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Secularism and Democracy in Israel: Military Service as Case Study

open access: yes, 2019
The article "Secularism and Democracy in Israel" explores the complex relationship between religion and democracy in Israel, focusing on compulsory military service as a case study.
Sebastián Cote Pabón   +3 more
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The Post-Enlightenment Moral Crisis and the Emergence of Secular Tyranny in the Middle East

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2017
This article explores humanity’s ethical transformation during Europe’s post-Enlightenment era and assesses its impact upon the origins and development of secularism.
Farhan Mujahid Chak
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Investigation of the Relationship Between Nurses' Levels of Secularism and Their Perceived Levels of Bricolage Activities

open access: yesSağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi
Aim: Secularism is defined as the process by which individuals become independent from religious beliefs, while bricolage activities refer to the ability to produce creative solutions using available resources. This study aims to examine the relationship
Ayşe Elkoca   +2 more
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Arab spring and reorganization of the state

open access: yes
This article assumes that within the next five years or so the bulk of the Islamic world will get rid of their dictators and aims to propose a blue print of governance for the newly emerging democracies.Arab spring; Islam and democracy; Islam and ...
Cizakca, Murat
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Secularism, Atheism and Democracy

open access: yes, 2012
In this paper I examine the positive effects atheism would have in a constitutional democracy and defend a secular view of the State. Such view will partly differ both from the American model and the French laïcité (at least the version expressed in ...
Alegre, Marcelo
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George Eliot and secularism

open access: yes, 2013
The brief conspectus of George Eliot purposes in her fiction should make it clear that her novels are not really secular at all. Most usually, secularization means the successful critique of revealed religion and supernaturalisms. From this point of view,
Simon During, During, Simon
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