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Religions, 2023 In the 1960s, it was taken for granted that modernization eroded religion. In the 1980s, this consensus was challenged by the rational choice, supply-side, or market model proposed by Rodney Stark and associates.
Steve Bruce, David Voas
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Religions, 2023 Much theorizing about secularization tells a “differentiation story” that puts a historical process of structural differentiation at the center of its understanding of secularization.
Kevin N. Flatt
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Secularization in Europe: Causes, Consequences, and Cultural Diversity
Religions, 2023 This paper explores the timeliness and relevance of secularization theories in Europe. It seeks to understand how the classical theories of secularization—rationalization, societalization, functional differentiation, and existential security—and their ...
Jorge Botelho Moniz
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Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2022 One prominent theory of social change predicts secularization—when societies prosper, people rely less on religion for ensuring survival, social order, and meaning of life.
Kodai Kusano, Waleed Ahmad Jami
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Explaining Religious Revival in the Context of Long-Term Secularization
Religions, 2023 Secularization theory has often been criticized for not being able to explain counterexamples. However, secularization theorists argue that transitory religious resurgences are expected to occur even in modernizing conditions.
J. Stolz, David Voas
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A counterexample to secularization theory? Assessing the Georgian religious revival.
British Journal of Sociology, 2023 Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of Orthodox countries and one of the most ...
J. Stolz +3 more
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Is Secularization an Age-Related Process?
The International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 2021 Secularization has been studied for decades by sociologists of religion. Long-running surveys in the United States and Europe show steady generational decline in religious affiliation and participation, and yet this trend has largely been ignored by ...
E. Idler
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THE DURABILITY OF RELIGION IN THE SECULAR AGE: RELIGIONIZATION IN INDONESIA
Al-A'raf: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat, 2023 The global intensification of religionization has raised renewed questions about the validity of the secularization thesis. Research supporting the secularization thesis suggested an alternative perspective, emphasizing the correlation between security ...
Alamsyah M. Djafar, Unaesah Rahmah
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Minjung Theology as a Project of Profanation: Focusing on the Minjung-Event Theory of Byung-Mu Ahn
Religions, 2023 The relationship between minjung theology and the process of social change called secularization or theoretical and practical projects based on such processes of social change is complex. It requires more detailed discussions. Therefore, this paper seeks
Yongtaek Jeong
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Allameh Tabataba'i and the Question of Secularization [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2016 This paper examines and analyzes the dialogue between Henry Corbin and Allameh Tabataba'i and in this regard, refers to the other works of Corbin and continues a comparative analysis of his works and for the first time, presents the importance of his ...
Ahmadreza Yazdanimoghaddam
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