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SECULARIZATION: OPPORTUNITY, OPTION OR CHALLENGE FOR MULTI-RELIGIOUS SOCIETY [PDF]

open access: yesHum, 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
doaj  

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

open access: yesRevue 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
doaj   +1 more source

Two TESOL Teacher Educators' Identity Work Through Transnational Collaboration to Pedagogize Identity in a Practicum Course

open access: yesTESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In our study, we used self‐study of teacher education practices (S‐STEP), which helps teacher educators examine dimensions of their practice and offers implications to improve how they teach teachers in their professional context. Our study addressed this research question: How did we engage in identity work through transnational collaboration
Özgehan Uştuk, Bedrettin Yazan
wiley   +1 more source

Education promoted secularization [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Parsons on Christianity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
core   +2 more sources

The Deconversion of Harriet Martineau: An Emotional History of Unbelief

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Conceptualising the ‘Victorian crisis of faith’ as a phenomenon fuelled by wider intellectual forces can only take us so far in our understanding of it. The loss of faith of many contemporaries did not merely entail an intellectual volte‐face, but also an affective impact. Scholarly accounts have been primarily written by privileging the role of ideas,
PETROS SPANOU
wiley   +1 more source

Examining Islamic Economic Thought in the Context of Comparative Historical Economic Sociology

open access: yesİstanbul İktisat Dergisi, 2022
This paper discusses Islamic economic thought in the context of economic sociology. To do so, it utilizes the comparative historical method, which holds central importance for theorists of economic sociology.
Onur Dündar
doaj   +1 more source

What’s missing? Gender, reason and the post-secular [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This is the author's post-print PDF version of an article published in Political Theology. The article can be found at www.politicaltheology.com/PT/This journal article discusses the role of gender in the contemporary debate around the post ...
Elaine Graham, Habermas Jurgen
core   +1 more source

Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print

open access: yesGender &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

How Secular is European Secularism?

open access: yesEuropean 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.
openaire   +3 more sources

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