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China Challenges Secularization Theory
Social Compass, 2009The author proposes a reflection on challenges that the three anthropological articles in this issue present for secularization theory. The first two discuss “performances” of religion in two different Chinese cultural periods: welfare services offered by recognized religious associations in the People’s Republic of China and the judicial rituals in ...
Karel Dobbelaere
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Secularization, Secularity, and Secularism in the New Millennium: Macro-theories and Research
2019In the second half of the 20th century, theories on secularization and secularism have been dominated by three approaches: secularization theory, individualization theory, and market theory. In the new millennium, approaches that both built on and revised these neoclassical approaches emerged: deprivation and insecurity theory, the theory of secular ...
Jörg Stolz, Pascal Tanner
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Toward Desacralizing Secularization Theory
Social Forces, 1987Jeffrey K Hadden, Hadden Jeffrey K
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Secularization Theory and Religion
Politics and Religion, 2020AbstractWhat is the relationship between religion and human development? Using data from the pooled 1981–2014 World and European Values Surveys, we examine the effect of human development on a country's level of religious attendance and belief. Consistent with the idea that the primary causal mechanism underlying secularization theory has to do with ...
Kostanca Dhima, Matt Golder
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Secularization Theories and Their Discontents
The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory, 2015The apparent return of religion (which, despite claims to the contrary, never retired from the public sphere) and the new interest in political theology have given secularization theories new relev...
Willi Goetschel, Nils Roemer
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2014
Secular management theory — that is, management theory developed elsewhere than in the religious organizational sector — has developed a wide range of powerful conceptual tools, tested by empirical study, that enable us to understand organizations in the private, public, and voluntary sectors.
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Secular management theory — that is, management theory developed elsewhere than in the religious organizational sector — has developed a wide range of powerful conceptual tools, tested by empirical study, that enable us to understand organizations in the private, public, and voluntary sectors.
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Revisiting Secularism in Theory and Practice
2020This book offers a philosophical and macro-historical analysis of secularism, supported by an investigation of various contemporary cases. Starting with an in-depth theoretical discussion of the meaning of secularism, it subsequently presents a historical study on the secularization of norms and identities in Europe.
Ünsar S., Eriş Ö.Ü.
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The Theory of Certainty Secularized
1963Having dealt in the last chapter with the problem of certainty as it arose in religious controversies, we now turn to the formulation of the problem in the context of secular affairs. The views of John Wilkins and Joseph Glanvill, two early members of the Royal Society, will be examined; though not remembered for their scientific accomplishments they ...
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Reconceptualizing Secularization and Secularism: The Value-Inversion Theory
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