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Revisiting the classics on secularization theory [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
Secularization theory's sway has waned since the end of the 20th century, but the myth that the “founding fathers” of sociology were pioneers of this theory has survived. This article aims to demolish this myth through a comparative analysis of the works
Haldun Gülalp
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Secularization Theory’s Differentiation Problem: Revisiting the Historical Relationship between Differentiation and Religion

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Much theorizing about secularization tells a “differentiation story” that puts a historical process of structural differentiation at the center of its understanding of secularization.
Kevin N. Flatt
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Explaining Religious Revival in the Context of Long-Term Secularization

open access: yesReligions, 2023
Secularization theory has often been criticized for not being able to explain counterexamples. However, secularization theorists argue that transitory religious resurgences are expected to occur even in modernizing conditions.
Jörg Stolz, David Voas
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God Is Dying in Turkey as Well: Application of Secularization Theory to a Non-Christian Society

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2018
It has been stated in academic studies and popular media that Islam began its rise in dominance in Turkey with the accession of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) to power in 2002 under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Ertit Volkan
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Secularism as a Project of Free and Equal Citizenship: Reflections on the Turkish Case [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology, 2022
This article undertakes a defense of secularism, much maligned by postmodernists and multiculturalists. First, secularism as a normative political principle is conceptually distinguished from the discredited sociological theory of secularization and ...
Haldun Gülalp
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Rodney Stark, Subjective Religiousness and a Prolonged Farewell to Secularization Theory

open access: yesКонцепт: философия, религия, культура, 2021
In 1999, Rodney Stark announced that the secularization theory had died and should be buried in a graveyard of failed doctrines. He presented the rationale for this verdict in Secularization, R.I.P., which was supposed to show that the theory of ...
A. V. Appolonov
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Minjung Theology as a Project of Profanation: Focusing on the Minjung-Event Theory of Byung-Mu Ahn

open access: yesReligions, 2023
The relationship between minjung theology and the process of social change called secularization or theoretical and practical projects based on such processes of social change is complex. It requires more detailed discussions. Therefore, this paper seeks
Yongtaek Jeong
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Melampaui Sekularisasi : Meninjau Ulang Peran Agama di Ruang Publik pada Era Disrupsi

open access: yesHanifiya, 2021
Is the theory of secularization dead? It seems not. The idea of secularization continues to develop and shows that secularization will never occur totally, but it will not be buried into a failed theory.
Dwi Wahyuni
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Selected anomalies or overlooked variability? Modernization is associated with secularization in countries with high historical wealth but is associated with increasing religiosity in post-communist or Christian-minority countries

open access: yesCurrent Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 2022
One prominent theory of social change predicts secularization—when societies prosper, people rely less on religion for ensuring survival, social order, and meaning of life.
Kodai Kusano, Waleed Ahmad Jami
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THE ALIENATED SUBJECT IN MODERN SCIENCE AS THE PROBLEM OF HUMANITY

open access: yesKhazanah: Jurnal Studi Islam dan Humaniora, 2022
Those above-mentioned condition in short are not taken it as a given but it is established by the long and pervasive process of secularization of science which is primariy chracterized as the alienated knowing subject in mainstream scientific endeavours.
Husain Heriyanto
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