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Mission and Secularism

open access: yesSt Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
‘Secularism’ is an ideology that is intimately connected with the category of the ‘secular’ and the historical process of ‘secularization’. While it is important to distinguish these terms, Christian missiologists have always been aware that ...
Stefan Paas
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Adorno's empiricism?: On intellectual and metaphysical experience

open access: yesThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Adorno's work contains pregnant references to the concepts of both “intellectual” and “metaphysical” experience. While the concept of metaphysical experience figures relatively prominently in the Adorno literature, intellectual experience has been largely neglected—indeed to the point that certain scholars have asserted that the two concepts ...
Tom Whyman
wiley   +1 more source

The positive aspects of secularization in history

open access: yesMemoria y Civilización, 2012
Introduction to the history of “secularization” concept and, in connection with, the concept of “world”. It is underlined the character historical and therefore “secular” of everything and, consequently, of every human being.
José Andrés Gallego
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Do Family Changes Constitute a Comprehensive Demographic Shift? A Comparison of the Spatial Dynamics of Five Family Changes in Switzerland (1969–2023)

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Several theories have been proposed to explain the family changes that have occurred in Europe since the mid‐1960s. It is often assumed that as these changes occurred simultaneously; they have a common origin and represent the same demographic shift.
Adrita Banerjee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transparent Artificial Intelligence in Theology Classrooms: Ethical and Pedagogical Insights of the Apertus Model for Religious Education

open access: yesTeaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how openness in AI design influences theological learning in religious education (RE). Drawing on Zizioulas's theology of personhood and Floridi's information ethics and aligned with the Greek upper‐secondary RE curriculum, an open‐source multilingual model (Apertus) is compared with a proprietary system (GPT‐5).
Christos Papakostas
wiley   +1 more source

Development and Secularization in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesIslām 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)
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
wiley   +1 more source

Why Do European Governments Favor Religion? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper explores a highly controversial issue: while most European countries are undergoing a clear and well-documented process of secularization, the governments of these countries widely support religious institutions.
Angel Solano, Pablo Brañas-Garza
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The Secularization Theory - Not Disconfirmed, Yet Rarely Tested.

open access: yes, 2017
Tendencies of secularization-religiosity decreases in Western societies since 1950-have been found abundantly in comparative survey research. They are taken as starting point to examine what the theory of secularization predicts and which predictions ...
Heiner Meulemann, Meulemann, Heiner
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HAS ROMANIA BECOME A SECULAR SOCIETY? [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română de Sociologie, 2016
The article examines the question of secularization of Europe, and in particular of Romania, by using multiple international data sets. Secularization has been defined separation of the state government and religious authority resulting in a decrease in
IRINA STAHL
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