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Evaluating Giddens' Theory of Religion and Secularization Based on Islamic Fundamentals [PDF]

open access: yesاسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2016
Giddens unlike classical sociologists and with attention to the emergence of contemporary religious movements, especially the Islamic fundamentalism, has rejected secularization of the religion in the modern world and with a reflexive interpretation, has
Abdulali Adeli
doaj  

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Religion and Innovation in Europe: Implications for Product Life-Cycle Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper analyzes the relationship between religion and innovation in Europe. To the best knowledge of the authors, no paper has been published about the association of religion with innovation and innovative products and services, at an individual ...
Recio Menéndez, Manuel   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The National Transformation of the Historical Memory of Minor Jewish Holidays During the Period of Hibbat Zion

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
wiley   +1 more source

Economy as a religious problem: A political approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This article tackles the problem of understanding money and economy with non-economic analytical categories. The first part is devoted to point out the differences between the exclusively economic approaches to money and the recent research, from ...
Ludueña, Fabian Javier
core  

Secularization Theories and the Study of Chinese Religions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The author proposes a dialogue between recent literature on the history of Chinese popular religion and recent sociological debates about secularization theory, asking whether a better understanding of concepts, theories and evidence from one field may ...
Szonyi, Michael Andor
core   +1 more source

Do Family Changes Constitute a Comprehensive Demographic Shift? A Comparison of the Spatial Dynamics of Five Family Changes in Switzerland (1969–2023)

open access: yesTijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract Several theories have been proposed to explain the family changes that have occurred in Europe since the mid‐1960s. It is often assumed that as these changes occurred simultaneously; they have a common origin and represent the same demographic shift.
Adrita Banerjee   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Creation as an Ecumenical Problem: Renewed Belief through Green Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Loss of a sense of creaturehood and of members has occurred across the lines of divided churches in a secular context. The author explores the question whether green experience of nature can be a path toward a renewed sense of creaturehood.
Hughson, Thomas
core   +1 more source

Beyond Universities: Structural Stratification in Canadian Tertiary Education

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Empirical analyses and theorizing of structural stratification in tertiary education have focused almost exclusively on universities. In doing so, such work ignores large swaths of the organizational field, including counterparts in the understudied community college, private career college, and theological sectors.
Roger Pizarro Milian, David Zarifa
wiley   +1 more source

Global Cultural Change and Anxiety in Children and Adolescents: Analyzing Socialization Goals Over Three Decades in 70 Countries

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT On average, cultures seem to shift towards a greater emphasis of an independent social orientation. However, this shift may vary, with some cultures following different trajectories. Cultural transformations also affect the norms regarding the qualities favored in children, known as socialization goals.
Leonard Konstantin Kulisch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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