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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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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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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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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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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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Education promoted secularization [PDF]

, 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization.
Nagler, Markus, Woessmann, Ludger, Becker, Sascha O.   +2 more
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The end of secularization in Europe? A socio-demographic perspective

, 2011
Much of the current debate over secularization in Europe focuses only on the direction of religious change, and pays exclusive attention to social causes.
E. Kaufmann, Kaufmann, E., A. Goujon, Kaufmann, Eric P., Goujon, A., V. Skirbekk, Skirbekk, V.   +6 more
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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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