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Secularization theories in the twenty-first century: Ideas, evidence, and problems. Presidential address *

Social Compass, 2020
This article argues that quantitative secularization research has made important progress in the last 20 years in seven areas. We have gained knowledge of how religion and religiosity are connected to insecurity, education, socialization, secular ...
J. Stolz
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Secularization Theory and Religion

Politics and Religion, 2020
What is the relationship between religion and human development? Using data from the pooled 1981–2014 World and European Values Surveys, we examine the effect of human development on a country's level of religious attendance and belief.
Kostanca Dhima, Matt Golder
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(What is left of) secularization? * Debate on Jörg Stolz’s article on Secularization theories in the 21st century: ideas, evidence, and problems

, 2020
This article is a critical response to Jörg Stolz’s 2019 ISSR presidential address as to the advances made by secularization research over the last 20 years. The article argues that the data presented can be boiled down to confirming what we already knew:
F. Gauthier
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Has education led to secularization? Based on the study of compulsory education law in China

China economic review, 2019
Has education led to secularization? Using microdata from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS), we take the implementation of the Compulsory Education Law (CEL) in 1986 in China as the instrumental variables (IV) for personal educational attainment ...
Yinhe Liang, Zhiyong Dong
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Romanticism/Secularization/Secularism

Literature Compass, 2008
Abstract The romantic period is often considered a time of secularization. However, recent critiques of the secularization thesis, as well as recent scholarly accounts of romanticism, have questioned this assumption. At the same time, a number of scholars have begun to analyze secularism itself.
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The Karel Dobbelaere lecture: Divergent global roads to secularization and religious pluralism

Social Compass, 2018
This article analyzes the two divergent, though intertwined, roads of European secularization and global religious pluralism. In continental Western Europe, modernization and urbanization were accompanied by drastic secularization with limited religious ...
J. Casanova
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Secularization, Genealogy, and the Legitimacy of the Modern Age: Remarks on the Löwith-Blumenberg Debate

Journal of the History of Ideas, 2019
:This essay reconstructs the secularization debate between Blumenberg and Löwith. It explores what a genealogy of secular modernity can and cannot accomplish, asking how to build on Blumenberg's legacy without repeating his errors.
P. E. Gordon
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Secularization, Secularity, and Secularism in the New Millennium: Macro-theories and Research

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 2019
In the second half of the 20th century, theories on secularization and secularism have been dominated by three approaches: secularization theory, individualization theory, and market theory.
J. Stolz, Pascal Tanner
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Science and secularization

Narratives of Secularization, 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
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The Romanian Religious Media Landscape: Between Secularization and the Revitalization of Religion

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 2018
Studies on religion in the former communist countries show that the cessation of the socialist repressions against the church and religion was followed by a revitalization of religion.
M. Tudor, Stefan Bratosin
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