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Moving beyond the (now somewhat tired) debates about secularization as paradigm, theory, or master narrative, this book focuses upon the empirical evidence for secularization, viewed in its descriptive sense as the waning social influence of religion, in
C. Field
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Moving beyond the (now somewhat tired) debates about secularization as paradigm, theory, or master narrative, this book focuses upon the empirical evidence for secularization, viewed in its descriptive sense as the waning social influence of religion, in
C. Field
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Narratives of de-secularization in international relations
Narratives of Secularization, 2017This article explores how a particular narrative of de-secularisation, the ‘restorative narrative,’ is shaping US foreign religious policy and practice. It develops two arguments about efforts to stabilize religion as an object of governance and restore ...
E. Hurd
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2019
This chapter reveals that even secular-minded thinkers like Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas were or are now sensitive to such claims discussed in the previous chapter. Weber understood secularization as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but he was aware that modernization came at a price and a steep one.
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This chapter reveals that even secular-minded thinkers like Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas were or are now sensitive to such claims discussed in the previous chapter. Weber understood secularization as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but he was aware that modernization came at a price and a steep one.
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Rethinking Secularism. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
Politics, Religion & Ideology, 2014Not that long ago it was assumed that if there was one thing social scientists could say with certainty it was that a long-term trend existed in the direction of greater secularization.
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George Eliot: The Secular Sublime, Post-Secularism, and ‘Secularization’
2016Despite her personal skepticism and predominantly secular outlook,1 we may regard George Eliot as a post-secularist. She was decidedly not a secularist of the Bradlaughian type. (See Chapter 3.) That is, she demonstrated a particular regard for religion and religious believers and generally acknowledged religion’s ongoing viability, its potential to ...
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2018
Secularization and secularism are closely related concepts that attempt to explain processes and phenomena in politics and public life in the modern era relating, in part, to the differentiation of religion from other aspects of human activity. They are not, however, simply concerned with the distinction between the religious and the secular.
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Secularization and secularism are closely related concepts that attempt to explain processes and phenomena in politics and public life in the modern era relating, in part, to the differentiation of religion from other aspects of human activity. They are not, however, simply concerned with the distinction between the religious and the secular.
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9. Secularization: Theoretical Controversies Generating Empirical Research
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2019
In contemporary rhetoric, secularism, modernity, and atheism are invoked as the end of a linear narrative of historical progress, but with the anthropological insights of Bruno Latour regarding scientific atheism, Graham Ward argues that secularism and modernity are abstract, mythological concepts, a “golden lie” upon which the modern state is built ...
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In contemporary rhetoric, secularism, modernity, and atheism are invoked as the end of a linear narrative of historical progress, but with the anthropological insights of Bruno Latour regarding scientific atheism, Graham Ward argues that secularism and modernity are abstract, mythological concepts, a “golden lie” upon which the modern state is built ...
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Secularism, Humanism, and Secular Humanism
2017This chapter considers recent American attempts to recognize secular humanism as a religion in light of more than a century of debates over the religiosity of secularism and humanism. It offers a history of these terms’ codependent evolution in the United States by focusing on the individuals, groups, and institutions that have adopted them and shaped ...
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