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El fenómeno de la laicidad como elemento identitario: el caso uruguayo = The laicity phenomenon as identity element: the Uruguayan case

open access: yesCivitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2011
This article analyzes the fenomenon of “secularity” in Uruguay. This country has developed a model of secularity that has itself become an issue of identification as well as differentiation in South America. It problematizes the term in its diversity and
Da Costa, Néstor
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The Impact of Fear and Authority on Islamic and Baha’iModernisms in the Late Modern Age: A Liberal Perspective

open access: yesReligions, 2015
Fear of the late modern world has been a major factor in the rise of authoritarianand violent religio-political movements. This article draws on Anthony Giddens andCharles Taylor’s conceptualisation of the self in the secular age, and applies this to ...
Geoffrey P. Nash
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managing Biodiversity Disclosure in Global Firms: How Culture, Institutions and Risk Shape Corporate Reporting

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the drivers of biodiversity disclosure and the interplay between firm strategies and national institutions in shaping transparency. Using a global panel of 4703 firms across 40 economies from 2013 to 2022, we integrate differentiation, signalling and institutional perspectives to explain variation in reporting behaviour ...
Chi Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Laicidade, Estado e Religião (Secularity, State and Religion) - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2010v8n19p6

open access: yesHorizonte, 2011
Editorial - Dossiê: Laicidade, Estado e Religião - (Dossier: Secularity, State and Religion)Laicidade, Estado e Religião (Secularity, State and Religion) - DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841 ...
João Batista Libanio
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Porous Secularity: Religious Modernity and the Vertical Religious Diversity in Cold War South Korea

open access: yesReligions
Beyond the once dominant secularization thesis that anticipated the decline of religion in the modern era, the academic study of religion has in recent decades revisited secular as one of the factors that shape religion and religions in the globalized ...
Kyuhoon Cho
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Who Governs Giving?: Executive Educational Backgrounds and the Adoption of Employee‐Led Corporate Social Responsibility

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Matching‐gift programs institutionalize employee‐led CSR by amplifying employees' voluntary donations. Yet we know relatively little about what promotes the adoption of these decentralized forms of corporate social engagement. Drawing on upper echelons theory, this study argues that executives with STEM educational backgrounds tend to favor ...
Jungwon Min
wiley   +1 more source

Advocating the value-add of faith in a secular context: The case of the Knowledge Centre Religion and Development in the Netherlands

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
This article analyses how faith-based civil society organisations have advocated the value-add of faith to governmental and non-governmental development actors in the highly secularised context of the Netherlands.
Brenda E. Bartelink, Ton Groeneweg
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SECULARITY, SYNCHRONICITY, AND UNCANNY SCIENCE: CONSIDERATIONS AND CHALLENGES

open access: yesZygon, 2021
In this essay, I discuss the reports and results of recent official studies of UFOs, and argue they may pose a challenge to contemporary science, religion, and secularity. While the question of UFOs has been well addressed with respect to religion, this
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