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Is Self-Expression Chic? Globalisation, Value Change and Convergence in Latin America
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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Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the "Essence" of Religion [PDF]
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McKinnon, Andrew M.
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Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Institutional Decline and Resilient Belief: Understanding Secularization in Latin America
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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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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The Development of 'Pro-Life' NGOs in Argentina: Three strategic movements [PDF]
In Latin America, the agenda of sexual and reproductive rights advocated by the feminist and LGBTI movements has challenged the hegemony of the sexual order held by traditionalist sectors, especially the hierarchy of the Catholic Church and conservative ...
Moran Faundes, Jose Manuel Ferrucio
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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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The power and the sacred: the impossible goodbye? Between political theology and economic theology [PDF]
What holds together the social order? This question recurs even in post-traditional conceptions of the social bond and, explicitly or implicitly, leads to the relationship between power and pre-political sources of the legitimacy. Secularization is not
Preterossi, Geminello
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Education promoted secularization [PDF]
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization.
Becker, Sascha O. +2 more
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