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Critique of Auguste Comte’s ideology on the death of religion
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 Secularism dealt with the known, whereas religion dealt with the unknown. The rise of secularism threatened the survival of religion. This was the thesis of Auguste Comte.
Anuli B. Okoli, Favour C. Uroko
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
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Indian exceptionalism? A discussion on India's experiment with constitutional secularism [PDF]
, 2006 The secular state is the most important of contemporary institutional forms available to deal with the problem of sectarian violence in liberal democracies.
John, Matthew
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Paradox of Islamic Secularism: Review of the Book Islamic Secularism: A Critique on Muslim Intellectuals [PDF]
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی, 2018 Historically, after the movement of constitutionalism (Mashrouteh), secularism got engaged with Iran, but it was notattended as a problematic concern for the Iranian intellectuals.
Majid Behestani, Mohammadreza Amirzadeh
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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Freedom of Religion and Belief in India and Australia: An Introductory Comparative Assessment of Two Federal Constitutional Democracies [PDF]
, 2019 This article considers the freedom of religion and belief (“free exercise”) in two secular federal constitutional democracies: India and Australia. Both constitutional systems emerged from the former British Empire and both continue in membership of the ...
Babie, Paul T., Bhanu, Arvind P.
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Secularism and Fertility Worldwide
Socius, 2021 This study proposes and explores a new fertility determinant: societal secularism. Using country-level data from multiple sources ( n = 181) and multilevel data from 58 countries in the World Values Survey ( n = 83,301), the author documents a strong ...
Landon Schnabel
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Continuity and Change in the Development of the Turkish Secularism
Czech Journal of International Relations, 2010 The study explores the specifics of the Turkish secularism as compared to the general definition of the concept of secularism. By analysing the political and social development of modern Turkey, the author demonstrates the transformation of the Turkish ...
Erik Siegl
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