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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Sekularyzacja jako megatrend społeczno-kulturowy

open access: yesRelacje Międzykulturowe, 2017
Secularization as Sociocultural Megatrend The article deals with the widely discussed issue of the phenomena of secularization and desecularization under conditions of diffusion of religious pluralism. New forms and functions of “returning” religiousness
Janusz Mariański
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review: \u3cem\u3eThe Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A review of The Language of Disenchantment: Protestant Literalism and Colonial Discourse in British India by Robert A ...
Gonsalves, Roselle M.
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Inventing the Gothic Subject: Revolution, Secularization, and the Discourse of Suffering [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
In 1816, Byron\u27s Childe Harold bemoaned: What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?/The heart\u27s bleed longest, and but heal to wear/That which disfigures it (III, 84), a fitting expression of the culture\u27s fascination with psychic, emotional,
Hoeveler, Diane
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Is secularism history? [PDF]

open access: yesThesis Eleven, 2015
In recent years, the intellectual tide has moved strongly against the kind of secular thinking that characterized Gellner’s work. Whether couched in terms of postcolonialism, multiculturalism, genealogy, global understanding, political theology, or the revival of normative, metaphysical and openly religious perspectives, today’s postsecular and even ...
openaire   +2 more sources

EFL learning, religious faith and globalization in Indonesia's pesantren

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
Abstract Increasing global demands to teach and learn English in religious educational institutions remain high, yet little EFL research has been conducted in such contexts. Using Indonesia's Islamic educational institutions (i.e., the pesantren) as a focus of analysis, this article seeks to narrow that gap by examining the key factors driving EFL ...
Muhammad Jauhari Sofi   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Biology of Secularization

open access: yesStudia Humana, 2019
For the past 500 years, to varying degrees, the processes of religious secularization have been occurring in what today are the wealthy, highly educated, industrialized nations of the world.
Feierman Jay R.
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