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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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Coalition Breakdown and Subsystem Exit
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why actors choose to work together (or not) to advance policy has been the central area of inquiry within the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Existing research has mainly emphasized the pathway towards coalition formation and evolution, underscoring the stable patterns of allies and opponents observable in policy processes over a decade or
Charlie F. Thompson
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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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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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Adorno's empiricism?: On intellectual and metaphysical experience
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Adorno's work contains pregnant references to the concepts of both “intellectual” and “metaphysical” experience. While the concept of metaphysical experience figures relatively prominently in the Adorno literature, intellectual experience has been largely neglected—indeed to the point that certain scholars have asserted that the two concepts ...
Tom Whyman
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Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.Abstract Several theories have been proposed to explain the family changes that have occurred in Europe since the mid‐1960s. It is often assumed that as these changes occurred simultaneously; they have a common origin and represent the same demographic shift.
Adrita Banerjee +4 more
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Teaching Theology &Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how openness in AI design influences theological learning in religious education (RE). Drawing on Zizioulas's theology of personhood and Floridi's information ethics and aligned with the Greek upper‐secondary RE curriculum, an open‐source multilingual model (Apertus) is compared with a proprietary system (GPT‐5).
Christos Papakostas
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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 ...
USM ADMIN
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Introduction: Charting the Evolution of English and Anglophone Writing in Asia
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This introductory article explores the history of the English language and literatures in the Asian ‘Outer Circle’ countries, or English in its ‘second diaspora’, focusing primarily on literature from its beginnings to the present. Due to space limitations, the scope is further narrowed to poetry and the novel – the two genres that, arguably ...
Mohammad A. Quayum
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European Journal of Education, Volume 61, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT Faith‐based organisations (FBOs) are recognised by the development community as key organisations and partners in development cooperation. Yet commitments to secularism underlying international development cooperation in policy and practice have—to a certain extent—restricted theoretical and empirical study of the involvement and contribution ...
Tessa DeLaquil +3 more
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