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The secularism of post-secularity: religion, realism, and the revival of grand theory in IR [PDF]

Review of International Studies, 2012
AbstractHow to theorise religion in International Relations (IR)? Does the concept of post-secularity advance the debate on religion beyond the ‘return of religion’ and the crisis of secular reason? This article argues that the post-secular remains trapped in the logic of secularism.
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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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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Unravelling Secularization: an International Study [PDF]

The current study examines individuals who were raised in a certain religion and at some stage of their life left it. Currently, they define their religious affiliation as ‘no religion’.
Teresa García-Muñoz, Pablo Brañas-Garza, Shoshana Neuman   +2 more
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Statistiek versus ervaringswaarden

Religie & Samenleving
The longitudinal research project God in the Netherlands (GiN) concluded in its 2025 edition several contradictory trends. On the one hand, there are clear signs of secularization, while on the other hand there are higher levels of orthodoxy among ...
Erik Sengers
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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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The Changing Educational Gradient in Nontraditional Attitudes toward Family Behavior: A Cross‐National Study

Population and Development Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The second demographic transition (SDT) theory highlights how nontraditional family behaviors first emerged in Nordic countries and diffused elsewhere. Cross‐national variations in approval of such behaviors across educational groups and changes over time remain underexplored, however.
Katrin Schwanitz, Lydia Palumbo, Ann Berrington, Marika Jalovaara   +3 more
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'Religious revival' versus secularization? [PDF]

, 1998
Con este artículo queremos intervenir en el debate actual de si la proliferación de movimientos religiosos, confesiones y sectas, es decir, el llamado «resurgimiento de lo religioso» contrarresta o no la teoría de la secularización.
Rubio Ferreres, José María
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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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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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