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‘Neither Victim nor Executioner’: Essential Insights from Secularization Theory for the Revitalization of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Contemporary World

open access: yesReligions, 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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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &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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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]

open access: yesPrincípios, 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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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

El retorno antimoderno. Mito y teología política en tiempos postseculares.

open access: yesTheoría 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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Setback in Secularization: Church and State Relations under the Duterte Administration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
As he moves closer to half of his term as president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Roa Duterte has continually been in friction with the Catholic Church, specifically with certain members of its hierarchy.
Abellanosa, Rhoderick John
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Meta-Analysis of Researches on Secularization in Iran Based on Indicators Inferred from the Religious Scriptures [PDF]

open access: yesاسلام 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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Actual Grace and the Elevation of the Secular [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This paper develops and integrates several strands of thought represented in recent contributions that the author has tried to make to the secularization-sacralization debate.1 That debate is both ecclesial and theological, and the two contexts are ...
Doran, Robert M.
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Almost a proper Buddhist : the post-secular complexity of heritage Buddhist teen identity in Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This qualitative study explores how Buddhist affiliation relates to practice, how Buddhist teens define and experience their religious identity and which sociological paradigms are helpful in understanding the dynamics of Buddhist teen identity.
Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas
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