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The power and the sacred: the impossible goodbye? Between political theology and economic theology [PDF]
, 2015 What holds together the social order? This question recurs even in post-traditional conceptions of the social bond and, explicitly or implicitly, leads to the relationship between power and pre-political sources of the legitimacy. Secularization is not
Preterossi, Geminello
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
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Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä +1 more
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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God Is Dying in Turkey as Well: Application of Secularization Theory to a Non-Christian Society
Open Theology, 2018 It has been stated in academic studies and popular media that Islam began its rise in dominance in Turkey with the accession of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in 2002 under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Ertit Volkan
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Diakoni som sekularingsringsindikator
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1999 this article deals with secularization and Christian social work. It is a study of how the parish-based social work in St. John's Parish in Aarhus has been influenced by the secularization process in Denmark. The major source material of the study is two
Sune Wadskjær Nielsen
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
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SECULARIZAREA ȘI CAMUFLĂRILE SACRULUI. Editura Polirom, Iași, 2025. Nicu Gavriluță
Sociologie RomâneascăThe new book Secularizarea și camuflările sacrului [Secularization and the Camouflages of the Sacred] of Nicu Gavriluță is a very valuable contribution to the study of secularization in Romania, from an author that described so far vey well how the ...
Radu Carp
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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study [PDF]
The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’.
Pablo Brañas-Garza +2 more
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On things seen and unseen: enlarging the vision in sociology of religion [PDF]
, 2017 Our earliest sociological forebears gave us big ideas to think with and often turned their foundational questions to the analysis of religion. Durkheim (1964) asked how the energy of a gathered community became condensed into symbols that endure and bind
Ammerman, Nancy T.
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