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Evangelicalism and secularization in Britain and America from the eighteenth century to the present [PDF]
, 2017 Evangelicalism, the most salient form of religion in Britain and America by the mid-nineteenth century, formed the core of what was undermined by secularization over subsequent years.
Bebbington, David William +1 more
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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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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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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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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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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
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Examining Islamic Economic Thought in the Context of Comparative Historical Economic Sociology
İstanbul 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
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence [PDF]
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998)
Yossef Tobol +3 more
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Evaluation of the Impact of Pluralism on Secularization of People of Higher Education [PDF]
Islām va ̒ulūm-i ijtimā̒īVarious reasons have been proposed for the secularization of people of higher education. The research studies whether pluralism can explain these people’s secularization, in a constructionalism theoretical framework.
Majid Kafi
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