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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 Faith Factor. How Scholars’ Religiosity Biases Research Findings on Secularization

Sociological Science
Secularization is one of the most debated areas of research in current sociology of religion. Despite hundreds of empirical studies, researchers do not even agree on the very existence of secularization in different parts of the world.
Valeria Rainero, Jörg Stolz, Ruud Luijkx   +2 more
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SECULARIZATION: OPPORTUNITY, OPTION OR CHALLENGE FOR MULTI-RELIGIOUS SOCIETY [PDF]

Hum, 2011
The paper gives an overview of approach to secularization theories from the Catholic, Orthodox and Islamic viewpoint. The emphasis is especially put on explaining phenomenon of secularization as a possible solution for coexistence in centuries long ...
Davorka Topić Stipić
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
wiley   +1 more source

L’histoire sociale de la religion au XIXe siècle : la sécularisation en question

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2008
The study of Victorian religion has been dominated in recent years by an all-round critique of the “secularization thesis” promoted by social historians in the 1960s and 1970s. Studies of institutional religion, of the religious consequences of modernity,
Julien Vincent
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
wiley   +1 more source

How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits

Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.
Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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