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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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Britain's spiritual life: how can it be deepened?: Seebohm Rowntree, Russell Lavers, and the "crisis of belief", ca. 1946-54 [PDF]

, 2005
This article examines the response of two social investigators in the early post-World War II period to the apparent secularization of British society.
Freeman, M.
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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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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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Primordialists and Constructionists: a typology of theories of religion [PDF]

, 2012
This article adopts categories from nationalism theory to classify theories of religion. Primordialist explanations are grounded in evolutionary psychology and emphasize the innate human demand for religion.
Alcorta C.S., Anderson B., Anjum O., Armstrong J., Asad T., Atran S., Atran S., Atran S., Bainbridge W.S., Bell D., Benthall J., Berger P.L., Berman E., Blume M., Bonney R., Boyer P., Brubaker R., Bruce S., Casanova J., Comaroff J.L., Cook D., Davie G., Dawkins R., Dennett D.C., Dobbelaere K., Durkheim E., Durkheim E., Durkheim E., Esposito J.L., Firestone R., Frazer J.G., Freud S., Freud S., Geertz C., Gellner E., Giddens A., Graham W.A., Gramsci A., Gray J., Grayling A.C., Greeley A., Guthrie S.E., Halliday F., Harris S., Hastings A., Hechter M., Hinde R.A., Hitchens C., Hobsbawm E., Horowitz D., Horton R., Hutchinson J., Hutchinson J., Inglehart R., Kaufman S.J., Kaufmann E., Kaufmann E., Kedourie E., Kepel G., King G., Laitin D.D., Malinowski B., Martin D., Martin D., Marx K., Marx K., McClenon J., McLeod H., Norris P., Parsons T., Philpott D., Reddy W.M., Riesebrodt M., Rowthorn R.E., Saideman S., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Stark R., Stark R., Stark R., Stinchcombe A.L., Stölz J., Swartz D., Taylor C., Toft M., Tylor E.B., Van den Berghe P., Voas D., Weber M., Wilson D.S., Wilson E.O., Zimmer O., Özkirimli U.   +96 more
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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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Global religious changes and civil life in two Chinese societies: a comparison of Jiangsu and Taiwan [PDF]

, 2015
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15570274.2015.1039305Published ...
Weller, Robert P.
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Secularization, Religious Denominations, and Differences in Regional Characteristics: The State of Research and a Regional Statistical Investigation for Germany

Religions, 2020
The paper pursues the question of the relationship between secularization, religious denominations, and regional characteristics. A literature review leads to the formation of six hypotheses.
Christian Diller, Philipp Gareis
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Rethinking secularization

Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2014
Current sociology has falsified the modern prediction for the decline and extinction of religion. A lot of signs show a religious return and a revival of the religious question in a progressively more and more plural and globalized world. The survival of
Diego Bermejo
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The Secular Beyond: Free Religious Dissent and Debates over the Afterlife in Nineteenth-Century Germany [PDF]

, 2008
The 1830s and 1840s saw the proliferating usage of “the Beyond” (Jenseits) as a choice term for the afterlife in German public discourse. This linguistic innovation coincided with the rise of empiricism in natural science.
Weir, Todd H.
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