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Secularization Theory’s Differentiation Problem: Revisiting the Historical Relationship between Differentiation and Religion

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
exaly   +3 more sources

Secularization Vindicated

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.
David Voas
exaly   +3 more sources

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
exaly   +3 more sources

Revisiting the classics on secularization theory [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
Secularization theory's sway has waned since the end of the 20th century, but the myth that the “founding fathers” of sociology were pioneers of this theory has survived. This article aims to demolish this myth through a comparative analysis of the works
Haldun Gülalp
doaj   +2 more sources

Rethinking secularization

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2014
Current sociology has falsified the modern prediction for the decline and extinction of religion. A lot of signs show a religious return and a revival of the religious question in a progressively more and more plural and globalized world. The survival of
Diego Bermejo
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Science and secularization

Intellectual History Review, 2017
According to a long-standing narrative of Western modernity science is one of the main drivers of secularization. Science is said to have generated challenges to core religious beliefs and to have provided an alternative, rational way of looking at the ...
Peter Harrison
exaly   +2 more sources

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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Development and Secularization in Iran [PDF]

Islām va ̒ulūm-i ijtimā̒ī
The purpose of this article is to identify the influence of the development process of secularization in Iran. In this way, a theoretical and explanatory approach has been employed.
Hossein Bostan(Najafi)
doaj   +1 more source

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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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
doaj   +1 more source