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Primordialists and Constructionists: a typology of theories of religion [PDF]

, 2012
This article adopts categories from nationalism theory to classify theories of religion. Primordialist explanations are grounded in evolutionary psychology and emphasize the innate human demand for religion.
Alcorta C.S., Anderson B., Anjum O., Armstrong J., Asad T., Atran S., Atran S., Atran S., Bainbridge W.S., Bell D., Benthall J., Berger P.L., Berman E., Blume M., Bonney R., Boyer P., Brubaker R., Bruce S., Casanova J., Comaroff J.L., Cook D., Davie G., Dawkins R., Dennett D.C., Dobbelaere K., Durkheim E., Durkheim E., Durkheim E., Esposito J.L., Firestone R., Frazer J.G., Freud S., Freud S., Geertz C., Gellner E., Giddens A., Graham W.A., Gramsci A., Gray J., Grayling A.C., Greeley A., Guthrie S.E., Halliday F., Harris S., Hastings A., Hechter M., Hinde R.A., Hitchens C., Hobsbawm E., Horowitz D., Horton R., Hutchinson J., Hutchinson J., Inglehart R., Kaufman S.J., Kaufmann E., Kaufmann E., Kedourie E., Kepel G., King G., Laitin D.D., Malinowski B., Martin D., Martin D., Marx K., Marx K., McClenon J., McLeod H., Norris P., Parsons T., Philpott D., Reddy W.M., Riesebrodt M., Rowthorn R.E., Saideman S., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Stark R., Stark R., Stark R., Stinchcombe A.L., Stölz J., Swartz D., Taylor C., Toft M., Tylor E.B., Van den Berghe P., Voas D., Weber M., Wilson D.S., Wilson E.O., Zimmer O., Özkirimli U.   +96 more
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Secularism in Relation to Secularity and Secularization

Secular Studies, 2023
Abstract My article offers commentary about Jacques Berlinerblau's new book Secularism: The Basics.
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Almost a proper Buddhist : the post-secular complexity of heritage Buddhist teen identity in Britain [PDF]

, 2014
This qualitative study explores how Buddhist affiliation relates to practice, how Buddhist teens define and experience their religious identity and which sociological paradigms are helpful in understanding the dynamics of Buddhist teen identity.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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The Pioneering Formulation of the Concepts of Secularity and Secularism in the Arab-Islamicate World(s): Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion of Syria

Religions, 2023
This paper critically discusses the pioneering formulation of secularity and secularism in the Arab-Islamicate world(s) found in Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion of Syria (1860–1861).
Housamedden Darwish
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Nigeria and the quest for a secular state: The way forward

Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies
The persistent influence of religion on Nigeria’s politics continues to cast aspersions on the state’s secularism. Nigeria is religiously pluralistic with adherents of Christianity and Islam differing on the notion of secularism.
Wendy Chinonyerem Benaiah, Oluwanifemi Pelumi Adeyemo   +1 more
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The Transformation of Secularism and the BJP’s Hindu Nationalism

Chinese Journal of International Review, 2023
Since Modi came into power in 2014, secularism has significantly retreated in India’s State machinery, institutions and political discourse. Exploring the history of secularism after India’s independence, it can be concluded that India has never achieved
Jinying Chen
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Understanding Secularism and National Identity in French Political Discourses

Humaniora, 2020
The concept of secularism or laicité is expressed in political discourses in various ways by the French presidential candidates in the 2017 campaign.
Aprilia Firmonasari, Wening Udasmoro, Yohanes Tri Mastoyo   +2 more
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“Secularism” or “no-secularism”? A complex case of Bangladesh

Cogent Social Sciences, 2021
The incidents (in 2017) of changing the secular content of textbooks and removing a sculpture from the Supreme Court premises in Bangladesh raise a question among people who are sympathetic to secularism that Bangladesh is moving towards a theological ...
Abdul Wohab
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Secularism and Ethnic Minorities: Comparative Case Studies on Ethnic, Religious, and Political Cognitions in Pakistani-Controlled Kashmir, Central Russia, Romania, and Northern Scandinavia

Religions, 2023
According to my study, “political secularism” means the separation of political power from religious institutions, while “social secularism” is a theory and endeavor to eliminate religiosity from not only public but also private life, considering it an ...
László Koppány Csáji
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Secularism, secularism, godlessness: theological vision of the problem.

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2013
The religious crisis experienced by the present mankind is neither the first nor the last in its history. But it looks more sharp, more general, and above all - deeper, because it reaches the very roots of religion, God.
Ivan Ortynskyy
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