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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Elements of a Theory of Religious-Secular Competition
Política & Sociedade, 2017 This article presents basic elements of a theory of religious-secular competition on the individual level. The theory claims that individuals in many societies may choose between religious and secular options, creating a situation of competition between
Jörg Stolz, Pascal Tanner
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Christian Humanism in the Black Atlantic: The Case of Olaudah Equiano
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores Olaudah Equiano as a pivotal figure in the emergence of a Christian humanism forged within the Black Atlantic. Building on the analyses of Sylvia Wynter and Paul Gilroy, it examines how Equiano's The Interesting Narrative contests the racial figuration of the human that underwrote the development of racial capitalism and ...
Luke Bretherton
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Evaluating Giddens' Theory of Religion and Secularization Based on Islamic Fundamentals [PDF]
اسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی, 2016 Giddens unlike classical sociologists and with attention to the emergence of contemporary religious movements, especially the Islamic fundamentalism, has rejected secularization of the religion in the modern world and with a reflexive interpretation, has
Abdulali Adeli
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Creativity and Embodied Knowledge in Nicholas of Cusa's De mente (1450)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article aims to nuance the widespread view that embodied experience plays a secondary role in the acquisition of human knowledge in Nicholas of Cusa's thought. With a focus on De mente (1450), I contend that the body is not limited to being a necessary stimulus to provoke the mind's activity, but rather that finite, material experience ...
Massiel Román Molero
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the US electoral system, where states are conceived of and vote as discrete entities, state‐level characteristics are vital to consider because they reflect sociocultural context influencing voter behaviour. Though numerous studies have documented the connection between Christian nationalist ideology and voting for Donald Trump in 2016,
Andrew L. Whitehead, Samuel L. Perry
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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SOCIETATEA CONTEMPORANĂ – ÎNTRE TRADIŢIE ŞI SECULARIZARE
Studia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Umanistice, 2010 This article finds today's society at pause, between tradition and secularism, the theory of secularization that now provides a sufficient basis for analyzing the role of religion in the contemporary world, the identification of the functions and ...
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Can Liberalism Last?’ Anomaly and Faria (2023) argue that liberal societies tend to undermine their own long‐term survival, chiefly by fostering conditions—urbanization, mass migration from culturally distant regions and sub‐replacement fertility—that erode social trust and grant a demographic advantage to illiberal groups, whereas ...
Bouke de Vries, Maarten Boudry
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Value Change and the New Wave of Fertility Postponement in Western Europe
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract Since 2010, Western Europe has experienced a renewed wave of fertility postponement, contributing to declining fertility rates and rising childlessness. Although multiple explanations have been proposed, the role of ideational factors remains underexplored. This study examines whether broad changes in values help explain contemporary fertility
Oskar Lindström +2 more
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