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Radical Distinction of the Secular and the Problem of Violence in the Context of Contemporary Culture’s Philosophical Comprehension

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2023
The theory of secularization has long been at the forefront of the philosophical discourse of the 20th century. The secular perception of social processes could not help but influence their dynamics, the decisions made by people at different levels of ...
D. S. Litova
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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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Institutional Decline and Resilient Belief: Understanding Secularization in Latin America

Socius
A 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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Capitalism and secularization

Filosofia Unisinos, 2011
This paper sets forth the thesis that Walter Benjamin’s fragment, Capitalism as religion (written in 1921), should be understood as a polemical reflection upon the notion of secularization in contrast to the traditional views proposed by Max Weber and ...
Fabián Ludueña Romandini
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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
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Two Faces of the Anti‐Inclusion Neoconservative Coin in Brazil: Neoliberalism and Far‐Right

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil has recently experienced the resurgence of the far‐right, a movement that has also occurred in other countries around the world. Given this context, this article seeks to understand the factors that enabled the union among neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and the far‐right in Brazil, demonstrating that in times of economic crisis the ...
Eloisio Moulin de Souza
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Secularization as historical struggle

, 2018
Schlerka SM. Secularization as historical struggle. InterDisciplines. 2018;9(2):163-191.As one of the oldest master narratives in the humanities, the term secularization has been one of the most-debated terms in the sociology of religion.
Schlerka, Sebastian Matthias
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Religion i systemteoretisk belysning

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1996
The article is an introduction to the work of the German sociologist, Niklas Luhmann (born 1927), with special reference to some of the basic assumptions in his theory of religion.
Povl Götke
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Rethinking Merit in Calvin's Doctrine of the Atonement: Beyond Possessive Individualism

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Joan Lockwood O'Donovan argues that the Reformation doctrine of grace entails a rejection of the proprietary anthropology of self‐owning individuals and its attendant notion of justice – what C. B. Macpherson termed the “theory of possessive individualism.” Although O'Donovan praises Calvin's anthropology and his account of law for its non ...
John Walker
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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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