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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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, 2017 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.
Sascha O. Becker +2 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Religions, 2017 This essay explores two recent expressions of hostility towards secularization by Russian Orthodox officials (one from the Holy Synod of ROCOR and the other from Metropolitan Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev), and evaluates the likely consequences of this ...
Rico G. Monge
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How religion mediates the fertility response to maternity benefits
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract Do religious beliefs affect responses to fertility incentives? We examine a 1982 maternity benefits expansion in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in a difference‐in‐differences framework with similar East European countries as comparisons. To isolate the importance of religion, we compare women who did and did not grow up in religious households ...
Elizabeth Brainerd, Olga Malkova
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A kênósis entre o sagrado e o profano: a política e a secularização em Kierkegaard e seu dialogo com algumas das teses de Vattimo [PDF]
Princípios, 2008 One of the objectives of this article is analyses the thematic of politicsand secularization second the philosopher Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Two works ofthis thinker will be specially analised here: The Individual and The Practice ofChristianity.
Marcio Gimenes de Paula
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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The Meta-Analysis of Researches on Secularization in Iran Based on Indicators Inferred from the Religious Scriptures [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2015 The question about occurring or not occurring of secularization in Iran after the Islamic revolution has been one of the main concerns of researchers of sociology of religion field during recent years, and it has received diverse answers from them.
Hossain Bostan (Najafi)
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El retorno antimoderno. Mito y teología política en tiempos postseculares.
Theoría Revista del Colegio de Filosofía, 2017 The main argument of this essay highlights the political importance of the myths regarding the formation of the modern debate around secularization, especially the role that political myths and theologies play in the configuration of the modernity.
Ángel Octavio Álvarez Solís
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