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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 293-306, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 427-438, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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A New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Against Past‐Eternalism

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 2, Page 145-153, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper offers a new formulation of the “Hilbert's Hotel Argument” (HHA) which is superior to existing formulations because it (1) demonstrates that HH is logically impossible in the concrete world, (2) takes into account the need to consider the assumptions of HHA, and (3) offers a reply to an important objection concerning the validity of
Andrew Ter Ern Loke, Eli Haitov
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The Nature of Skeptical Theism: Answering Nonstandard Objections to Skeptical Theism

, 2019
Skeptical theism is a popular response to arguments from evil. Recently, Matthew A. Benton, John Hawthorne, and Yoaav Isaacs have argued that the theses that ground skeptical theism are either false or limited in scope. In this article, I show that their
Hendricks, Perry
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Skeptical theism and Skepticism About the External World and Past

, 2017
Skeptical theism is a popular - if not universally theistically endorsed - response to the evidential problem of evil. Skeptical theists question how we can be in a position to know God lacks God-justifying reason to allow the evils we observe.
Stephen Law
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'Do You Believe in God, Doctor?' The Atheism of Fiction and the Fiction of Atheism. [PDF]

Sophia, 2021
Nair RB.
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The Foundations of Skeptical Theism [PDF]

, 2012
Some skeptical theists use Wykstra’s CORNEA constraint to undercut Rowe-style inductive arguments from evil. Many critics of skeptical theism accept CORNEA, but argue that Rowe-style arguments meet its constraint.
Perrine, Timothy, Wykstra, Stephen J.
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An Evaluation of Skeptical Theism

, 2012
One of the most influential and frequently addressed responses to the evidential argument from Evil and divine hiddenness is advocated by so called skeptical theists, who claim that we are cognitively ill-equipped to know Gods reasons for permitting ...
Jonbäck, Francis,
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Individualized Skeptical Theism

, 2019
W artykule podejmuję próbę modyfikacji stanowiska zwanego „teizmem sceptycznym”. Powstało ono jako odpowiedź na dwa najpoważniejsze argumenty przeciwko istnieniu Boga: „argument ze zła” oraz „argument z ukrycia”. Tekst stanowi próbę udzielenia odpowiedzi
Hołda, Miłosz
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Skeptical Theism and Phenomenal Conservatism

, 2014
Recently there has been a good deal of interest in the relationship between common sense epistemology and Skeptical Theism. Much of the debate has focused on Phenomenal Conservatism and any tension that there might be between it and Skeptical Theism ...
Matheson, Jonathan
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