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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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Alienation, equality, and multifaith establishment
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Religious establishment today often takes a multifaith form, whereby multiple religions are supported in different ways and to different degrees. In order to contribute to the development of a normative framework for assessing practices and regimes of multifaith establishment, this article recommends the concept of “social alienation ...
Andrew Shorten
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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)
Bar-El, Ronen +3 more
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Derrida and the Danger of Religion [PDF]
, 2017 This paper argues that Jacques Derrida provides a compelling rebuttal to a secularism that seeks to exclude religion from the public sphere.
Newheiser, David
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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim Critically ill children are often accompanied by parents expressing religious values. This study aimed to explore paediatric clinicians' perceptions of parental religious values in a diverse setting, to understand their influence on the caring relationship and decision‐making for critically ill children.
Bertrand Lavoie +8 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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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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The Social Truth of Schopenhauer's ‘Metaphysics of Pity’: Compassion and Critical Theory
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Taking Horkheimer and Adorno's account of pity in the Dialectic of Enlightenment as my starting point, I show that Schopenhauer's compassion‐based moral theory exemplifies key elements of this account. In particular, this moral theory will be shown to possess a social truth for Horkheimer and Adorno because it is an expression of a wrong ...
David James
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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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Phenomenology and Mind, 2015 The author asserts the identity between Europe and secularization. Secularization not only as a process of unchristianizing and laicization, but especially in the meaning of term given by Karl Löwith, or as immanentizing of eschaton.
Marco Bruni
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