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The Rhetoric of Disenchantment: Ghost Belief and Secular Critique in Early Twentieth-Century China. [PDF]

Cogn Sci
Abstract This study presents the first large‐scale empirical analysis of how ghosts and spirits were debated during China's early twentieth‐century secular transformation. Using a novel dataset of over 2000 digitized texts—including newspapers, periodicals, and essays from 1890 to 1949—we combine close reading, AI‐assisted annotation, and statistical ...
Hong Z, Chen Y.
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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
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Evading Secularization: Prophecy as a Theological-Political Figure

Religions, 2023
Carl Schmitt proposes a political theology founded on the paradigm of secularization. In an attempt to evade secularization, Strauss responds to Schmitt’s approach in Philosophy and Law by subtly recovering the Maimonidean prophet.
Almudena Molina
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Sekularisasie en die roeping van die kerk

In die Skriflig, 1996
In this article the following aspects of secularization are discussed: what is meant by secularization, how it has developed, its main causes, the characteristics of secularized life and thought, the consequences of secularization, and the views of ...
P. J. de Bruyn
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Hıristiyanlık ve Sekülerleşme İlişkisi ya da Seküler Dindarlığın Teolojisi (Relationship Between Christianity and Secularization or Theology of Secular Religiousness)

İnsan & Toplum, 2012
The most basic presumption of discussions about secularization is that there is an opposite relationship between secularization and religion. However, this definition refers to a very general approach and is supplied by statistical data.
Hakan Olgun
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Sekularisasi dan Sekularisme Agama

Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya, 2016
The Starting from the 19Th centuries, the word of secularization appears, the secularization is intended to hand over power and property rights to the state church and secular foundations. And in the 20th century, the term has developed a conceptual long,
Raden Datoek A. Pachoer
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Arché-ic: Secularization in Giorgio Agamben’s “Homo Sacer” series

Reflexão, 2019
This paper puts Agamben in conversation with the topic of secularization. The fit between thinker and topic is quite natural, given that Agamben frequently approaches modernity through a theological archive, takes secularization narratives as the ...
Kimberly Matheson Berkey
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Islam dan Sekularisasi Politik di Indonesia

Tsaqafah, 2017
Throughout Indonesia’s independence history, discourse on secularization of politics arises constantly and draws a widespread appeal from many researchers.
Mohamad Latief
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Two Modern Concepts: Religion and Secularization

Bajo Palabra, 2018
Contemporary debates on religion and secularization rest partially on the polysemy of these terms. This paper provides a short history of both and make the following claims: 1. Religion and secularization are modern concepts; 2.
Eduardo Zazo Jiménez
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Selected anomalies or overlooked variability? Modernization is associated with secularization in countries with high historical wealth but is associated with increasing religiosity in post-communist or Christian-minority countries

Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2022
One prominent theory of social change predicts secularization—when societies prosper, people rely less on religion for ensuring survival, social order, and meaning of life.
Kodai Kusano, Waleed Ahmad Jami
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