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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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“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 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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Religion ohne Religion? : Säkularisierung als Ausbreitungsprozess funktionaler Äquivalente zur Religion [PDF]
, 2014 The mainstream discourse in the sociology of religion has turned its back on the secularization thesis. Current approaches rather promote the idea of a revival of religion.
Köhrsen, Jens
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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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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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The Secularization Theory - Not Disconfirmed, Yet Rarely Tested.
, 2017 Tendencies of secularization-religiosity decreases in Western societies since 1950-have been found abundantly in comparative survey research. They are taken as starting point to examine what the theory of secularization predicts and which predictions ...
Heiner Meulemann, Meulemann, Heiner
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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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Is Self-Expression Chic? Globalisation, Value Change and Convergence in Latin America
Revista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública, 2020 The literature concerning human values change, argues the main factor driving increasing levels of secularization and self-expression is the improvement of material conditions.
Henrique Carlos De Oliveira De Castro +3 more
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