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The Boom and Bust of Donor Development Regimes
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Across the Global North, support for international development is weakening. This raises an important question: Under what conditions does international solidarity become politically sustainable? This article addresses that question through a historical case study of the Netherlands, one of the strongest donor countries of the post‐war era and
Dirk‐Jan Koch
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ReligionsThis 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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Death in Children's Lives: Reimagining Death Literacy in Childhood
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children encounter death in everyday life, through family, peers, media, and health care. Opportunities for meaningful engagement with death‐related topics are limited. In this article, we reimagine death literacy—the knowledge and skills needed to navigate dying, death, and bereavement—through a child‐centred, social constructionist lens ...
Anne‐Sofie Nyström, Rakel Eklund
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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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Death, Grief and Collective Care in the Materialist Spirituality of a Forest Preschool
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a time when material reality appears disconnected from the spiritual world and meaning is sought through overconsumption of the Earth's material sphere, this study explores how death and grief are narrated as part of the ‘stories of the land’ that unite the material and spiritual worlds in a forest preschool in southeastern Finland ...
Emma Kurenlahti +3 more
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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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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article interrogates the politics of othering embedded in the taken‐for‐granted association of childhood, play, joy, and happiness. It explores how these notions are historically inscribed as forms of otherness tied to the affective normativity of joy.
Chushan Wu
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Institutional Decline and Resilient Belief: Understanding Secularization in Latin America
SociusA large body of literature analyzes trends of religious decline across Western Europe and North America. Often rooted in secularization theory—the idea that modernization reduces religious beliefs and practice—this research lacks attention to global ...
Matthew Blanton
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