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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 293-306, June 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Secularization in Orleans, France: A Case Study Utilizing Mark Chaves\u27 \u27New Differentiation Theory\u27

open access: yes, 2011
Steeped in a heavily religious history, Europe and specifically France provide an intriguing backdrop for a closer look into secularization in present-day Orleans, France.
Beck, Stephanie J.
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Secularization and Its Discontents, by Rob Warner

open access: yesSecularism and Nonreligion, 2012
Isabella Kasselstrand
doaj   +1 more source

From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
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

Secularism, Secularization, and Why the Difference Matters

open access: yes, 2011
The belief that modernity can be completed—and not merely in some ungraspable “fullness of time”—is the little that remains of art's utopian promise. But this is at the same time the promise of a fully achieved secularism.
Vincent P. Pecora
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Navigating Family Involvement in Scandinavian Intensive Care Units—An Integrative Review

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Family involvement in the intensive care unit (ICU) is recognized as important, yet its implementation is complex and varies across contexts, including Scandinavian settings. Aim This integrative review aimed to synthesize and integrate the evidence on family involvement in Scandinavian ICUs across the perspectives of family members,
Lotta Johansson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Secularization thesis – Description and analysis : The connection between increased education, economy and secularization

open access: yes, 2016
Aim: Describe and analyze two of the arguments that supports the secularization theory that Steve Bruce use in his book “God is Dead”. Thesis questions: What argument does Bruce put forth to support the secularization theory?
mikael., kerven
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Secularization: A Genealogical Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Religious change is one of the most important research subjects of social sciences. In this manner secularization is used in social sciences literature as main framework to explain religious change in modern societies.
Ahmedi, Ekber Şah
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Talcott Parsons and the enigma of secularization

open access: yes, 2013
During the last ten or fifteen years of his life, Talcott Parsons (1902-79) discussed religion and secularization in a number of papers and essays. This work was left unfinished; in the last book that he saw into print, Parsons depicted these papers and ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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في نقد أطروحة العلمنة في السياقين الغربي والإسلامي

open access: yesالفكر الإسلامي المعاصر, 2016
تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى إبراز جملة من الردود النقدية الراهنة كما تجلَّت في السياقين: الغربي والإسلامي، موجَّهةً إلى أطروحة العلمنة. وقد تطرقت الدراسة إلى التعريف بالعَلمانية والعلمنة وأطروحة العلمنة، محاولةً الوقوف عند أصولها وأعلامها وصيرورتها كما تجلَّت ...
إبراهيم الفيضا
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