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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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Missional Churches in Secular Societies: Theology Consults Sociology [PDF]
, 2011 The church is missionary by nature. But what about public church mission in secular societies? Furious religion mobilizing against rebarbative secularity? Withdrawal to seek exemplary perfection?
Hughson, Thomas
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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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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 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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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 ScienceSecularization 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 +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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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.
Becker, Sascha O. +2 more
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Secularism, fundamentalism or Catholicism: the religious composition of the United States to 2043 [PDF]
, 2010 We provide a cohort-component projection of the religious composition of the United States, considering differences in fertility, migration, intergenerational religious transmission, and switching among 11 ethnoreligious groups.
Abramowitz +49 more
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