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The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence [PDF]

This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998)
Yossef Tobol, Ronen Bar-El, Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman   +3 more
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Secularization and desecularization: discussion on paradigms

Cauriensia
This paper attempts to contribute to the debate on theory of secularization by presenting critical arguments against it and – where possible – these arguments’ refutation. Some of the arguments, however touch the core paradigm of secularization, and, it
Piotr Musiewicz
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Neoliberalism and eurochristianity

Religions, 2021
This article argues for an articulation of the “eurochristian worldview” in order to situate neoliberalism as an expression of eurochristian colonialism.
Roger Kurt Green
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The Second Stage of the “Religious Revival” in Russia: How to Evaluate It from the Perspective of the Secularization Debate

Religions
This article focuses on the religious processes in Russia over the last fifteen years. The author has two objectives: on the one hand, to describe processes that can be called the second stage of the “religious revival” in contemporary Russia, and on the
Dmitry Uzlaner
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“Is There Toleration in Islam?” Reframing a Post-Islamist Question in a Post-Secular Context

ReOrient, 2016
This article presents a critical appraisal of the post-Islamist position in the discourse on toleration in Islam. It starts with a critical overview of post-Islamism and its position on pluralism and toleration.
Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedi
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Secularism as a Project of Free and Equal Citizenship: Reflections on the Turkish Case

Frontiers 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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Die Versprachlichung des Sakralen: The Transformation of the Authority of the Sacred into Secular Political Deliberation in Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action

Nordicum-Mediterraneum, 2011
bermas claims in connection with his development of the theory of communicative action that the sacred is transformed in a positive way and can take the form of free deliberation in society, the so called Versprachlichung des Sakralen. The thesis is that
Øjvind Larsen
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Theology for Nones: Helping People Find God in a Secular Age [PDF]

Studia Gilsoniana, 2017
One-third of all adults under the age of thirty in the United States of America are ‘nones’. Nones include atheists, agnostics, and those who answer “nothing in particular” to religious survey questions.
Robert A. Delfino, Andrew Gniadek
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A Flexible Indeterminate Theory of Religion: Thinking through Chinese Religious Phenomena

Religions, 2019
This essay explores a few of the reasons for the failure of Western theories to capture Chinese religious experiences. It will include Durkheim’s insight that “The sacred … is society in disguised form” and variants of secularization theories in contrast
Tak-ling Terry Woo
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Secularización: ¿Teoría o paradigma? / Secularization: Theory or paradigm? [PDF]

, 2008
El presente artículo propone una revisión del debate sobre la secularización a partir del trabajo realizado por Olivier Tschannen en su libro Les théories de la sécularisation (1992).
Beltrán Cely, William Mauricio
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