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Rethinking secularization [PDF]

open access: yesPensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2014
Current sociology has falsified the modern prediction for the decline and extinction of religion. A lot of signs show a religious return and a revival of the religious question in a progressively more and more plural and globalized world. The survival of
Diego Bermejo
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The end of secularization in Europe? A socio-demographic perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Much of the current debate over secularization in Europe focuses only on the direction of religious change, and pays exclusive attention to social causes.
E. Kaufmann   +6 more
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Minjung Theology in Contemporary Korea: Liberation Theology and a Reconsideration of Secularization Theory

open access: yesReligions, 2018
The Sewol Ferry tragedy in April 2014 has drawn a renewed attention to the role of religion in South Korea. Theologians and religiously-motivated NGOs in Korea at the time and thereafter have called for the need for religion, and religious organizations,
Andrew Eungi Kim
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The blind spots of secularization [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
According to several international surveys Spain is among the western countries with the most negative views of Jews. While quantitative data on the topic accumulates, there is a significant lack of interpretative approaches that might explain the ...
Baer, Alejandro   +4 more
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Analysis of secularization in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2019
This paper analyzes whether Brazil is experiencing a religious secularization process using data from Brazil Religion Survey conducted in 2007. Models of discrete choice are estimated to understand which individual attributes affect disaffiliation ...
Caroline Carvalho, Guilherme Irffi
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Resonance: The Final Dissolution of Religions or the Last Stage of Secularization

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Secularized societies allow for all kinds of expressions of human spirituality (or lack of it). However, both the established religions and the more fluid forms of spirituality seem to leave open a specific space for the religious experience as something
Oriol Quintana   +1 more
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A Post-Secular Approach to Managing Diversity in Liberal Democracies: Exploring the Interplay of Human Rights, Religious Identity, and Inclusive Governance in Western Societies

open access: yesReligions, 2023
This article delves into the pressing challenges confronting liberal democracies in Western Europe as they grapple with managing religious diversity, with a specific focus on Muslim minorities.
Zakaria Sajir
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Oorzaken en enkele gevolgen van ontkerkelijking

open access: yesReligie & Samenleving, 2013
The secularization theory and supply side theory are considered to be each other’s opponents. I provide some critical reflections on the secularization theory and especially on the supply-side theory. In my opinion both theories offer useful insights to
Nan Dirk de Graaf
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Secolarizzare la secolarizzazione. Una critica alla teologia sociale di Durkheim

open access: yesSocietàMutamentoPolitica: Rivista Italiana di Sociologia, 2017
The essay resumes the theory asserting that Durkheim’s sociology of religion is a proper ‘social theology’ itself. It shows the similarities and differences between Durkheim’s social theology and Carl Schmitt’s ‘political theology’ interpreting both as ...
Ambrogio Santambrogio
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Primordialists and Constructionists: a typology of theories of religion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article adopts categories from nationalism theory to classify theories of religion. Primordialist explanations are grounded in evolutionary psychology and emphasize the innate human demand for religion.
Eric, Kaufmann   +2 more
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