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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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Secularism and Secular People [PDF]

Public Culture, 2018
Author(s): Blankholm, Joseph | Abstract: This article bridges the gap between the study of religion-making secularism and the study of secular people with an empirical analysis of three recent lawsuits filed by secular activists in the United States. Each suit asks the courts to understand nonbelievers in a different way: one group refuses to identify ...
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Sömürge Dönemi Malay Dünyasında Sekülerleştirici Güçlerin Eğitim ve Yönetimdeki Girişimleri (A Brief Note on the Attempts of the Secularizing Powers in the Domains of Education and Administration during the Colonial Era in the Malay World)

İnsan & Toplum, 2012
In this article, the phenomenon of secularization will be examined briefly in the context of the colonization process in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia).
Mehmet Özay
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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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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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How Secular is European Secularism?

European Societies, 2014
ABSTRACT European Secularism, one of the many versions of secularism available in the world, was developed in the context predominantly of single-religion societies, after a great deal of religious homogenization had already taken place. It was and remains a modest secularism.
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Introduction: Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI Introduction : vers une anthropologie linguistique de l'IA

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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