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Primordialists and Constructionists: a typology of theories of religion [PDF]

, 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.
Alcorta C.S., Anderson B., Anjum O., Armstrong J., Asad T., Atran S., Atran S., Atran S., Bainbridge W.S., Bell D., Benthall J., Berger P.L., Berman E., Blume M., Bonney R., Boyer P., Brubaker R., Bruce S., Casanova J., Comaroff J.L., Cook D., Davie G., Dawkins R., Dennett D.C., Dobbelaere K., Durkheim E., Durkheim E., Durkheim E., Esposito J.L., Firestone R., Frazer J.G., Freud S., Freud S., Geertz C., Gellner E., Giddens A., Graham W.A., Gramsci A., Gray J., Grayling A.C., Greeley A., Guthrie S.E., Halliday F., Harris S., Hastings A., Hechter M., Hinde R.A., Hitchens C., Hobsbawm E., Horowitz D., Horton R., Hutchinson J., Hutchinson J., Inglehart R., Kaufman S.J., Kaufmann E., Kaufmann E., Kedourie E., Kepel G., King G., Laitin D.D., Malinowski B., Martin D., Martin D., Marx K., Marx K., McClenon J., McLeod H., Norris P., Parsons T., Philpott D., Reddy W.M., Riesebrodt M., Rowthorn R.E., Saideman S., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Smith A.D., Stark R., Stark R., Stark R., Stinchcombe A.L., Stölz J., Swartz D., Taylor C., Toft M., Tylor E.B., Van den Berghe P., Voas D., Weber M., Wilson D.S., Wilson E.O., Zimmer O., Özkirimli U.   +96 more
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Rethinking secularization

Pensamiento. 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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Missional Churches in Secular Societies: Theology Consults Sociology [PDF]

, 2011
The church is missionary by nature. But what about public church mission in secular societies? Furious religion mobilizing against rebarbative secularity? Withdrawal to seek exemplary perfection?
Hughson, Thomas
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Multiple religious belonging : Conceptual advance or secularization denial? [PDF]

, 2017
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Bruce, Steve
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Minjung Theology in Contemporary Korea: Liberation Theology and a Reconsideration of Secularization Theory

Religions, 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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Public Religions in a Postsecular Era: Habermas and Gandhi on Revisioning the Political [PDF]

, 2014
An embedded ideology of the religious-secular binary in its various forms has assumed currency in recent continental and Anglo-American political thought.
Verma, Vidhu
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The end of secularization in Europe? A socio-demographic perspective [PDF]

, 2012
Much of the current debate over secularization in Europe focuses only on the direction of religious change, and pays exclusive attention to social causes.
A. Goujon, Coleman, E. Kaufmann, Halman, V. Skirbekk, Voas, Voas   +6 more
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Analysis of secularization in Brazil [PDF]

Revista 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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Parsons on Christianity [PDF]

, 2015
In his late work on Christianity, Talcott Parsons obviously built upon the writings of both Durkheim and Weber. While he departed from the idea that increasing differentiation of the system of action did not have to threaten the unity of the system as a ...
Vanderstraeten, Raf
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Resonance: The Final Dissolution of Religions or the Last Stage of Secularization

Religions, 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, Xavier Casanovas Combalia   +1 more
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