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SOCIETATEA CONTEMPORANĂ – ÎNTRE TRADIŢIE ŞI SECULARIZARE

Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2010
This article finds today's society at pause, between tradition and secularism, the theory of secularization that now provides a sufficient basis for analyzing the role of religion in the contemporary world, the identification of the functions and ...
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Secularization, Liberalism and the Problematic Role of Religion in Modern Societies

Cuadernos Europeos de Deusto, 2018
This paper argues that there is a defective understanding of the sociological secularization process and a liberal tradition that takes for granted many problematic notions and subtly determines the logic of the debate on religion in modern societies ...
Sergio García
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The Big Carrot:High-Stakes Incentives Revisited [PDF]

Using an international dataset of about 35,000 subjects, this paper provides an empirical example of high-stakes incentives in relation to religious practice.
Pablo Brañas-Garza, Shoshana Neuman, Teresa García-Muñoz   +2 more
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Gendering Secularization Theory

Social Compass, 2005
The author argues that our understanding of secularization can be greatly enhanced by taking gender differences seriously. Whilst existing theories of secularization do a good job of explaining why men disaffiliated from Christianity after the onset of industrialization, they ignore the experience of women-whose experience of modernization was ...
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Cultural evolution and prosociality: widening the hypothesis space [PDF]

, 2016
Norenzayan and colleagues suggest that Big Gods can be replaced by Big Governments. We examine forms of social and self-monitoring and ritual practice that emerged in Classical China, heterarchical societies like those that emerged in pre-Columbian ...
Huebner, Bryce, Sarkissian, Hagop
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An economic theory of church strictness [PDF]

This paper makes several contributions to the growing literature on the economics of religion. First, we explicitly introduce spatial- location models into the economics of religion.
Nuno Garoupa, Pedro Pita Barros
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Christian Religion in the West: Privatization or Public Revitalization? [PDF]

, 2010
1. Introduction “After nearly three centuries of utterly failed prophesies and misrepresentations of both present and past, it seems time to carry the secularization doctrine to the graveyard of failed theories, and there to whisper ‘requiescat in ...
Achterberg, P.H.J. (Peter), Aupers, S.D. (Stef), Houtman, D. (Dick), Koster, W. (Willem) de, Mascini, P. (Peter), Roeland, J.H. (Johan), Waal, J. (Jeroen) van der   +6 more
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Secularization and the Construction of an Author–Reader Intellectual Community: A Study of Virginia Woolf’s Religious Legacies

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The secularization of religion in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Britain profoundly altered the ethical foundations of the modernist novel, challenging writers to reimagine the role of literature in the absence of religious authority ...
Qiong Yu
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Metaphoric Sense Developments in the Names of Places of Worship in Contemporary American English

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This paper offers an account of the metaphorical extension of the names of religious houses of worship such as temple, church, mosque, and synagogue in contemporary American English, reflecting processes of linguistic secularization. Using data from the
Sylwester Łodej, John G. Newman
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Ending resistance or resistance ending? Politics across the Fins de Siecle [PDF]

, 1998
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