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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Post-secular"”.
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Lonely Mystics: A Practical Theological Analysis of Emerging Post-Secular Spiritualities
… and places, defying widespread predictions of secularization, leading some theorists to refer to this phenomenon as "post-secular" spirituality. This dissertation is a thematic analysis of post-secular spirituality as articulated in recent qualitative studies of the spiritual but not religious, …
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Domestic faiths, global missions: post-secular science fiction at the millennium
In the late twentieth century, new “post-secular” modes of literary representation emerged that challenged the implicitly Protestant epistemologies of dominant twentieth century American secularism. My dissertation, Domestic Faiths, Global Missions: Post-secular Science Fiction at the Millennium, …
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A Critical Interpretation of Olivier Roy: On Globalization, the Cosmopolitan and Emerging Post-Secular Religiosities
<p>My thesis is that secularization transforms religion into religiosity. In other words, the secular breaks apart religion, or rather, 'deculturates' religion from a cohesive, collective body embedded within a particular society and within a traditional culture towards an individuated, and …
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Diplomacy and US-Muslim world relations: the possibility of the post-secular and interfaith dialogue
… Whilst they were successful at applying secular approaches to engaging international Muslim audiences, both campaigns failed to reach the core of Islamic society. This study contends that to reach this core, the crucial requirement must be to apply direct communicative engagement with …
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Natural Strange Beatitudes: Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon, Poetic Oxymoron and Post-Secular Poetics AND An Atheist's Prayer-Book
… poetry in being a major religious work in a post-religious age. Contemporary secular and atheistic insistence on the fundamentally crafted and flawed nature of religious faith has led Hill not to the abandoning of religious vision, but to a theologically disciplined approach to syntax, …
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Becoming Otherwise: Politics, Metaphysics and Power in Judith Butler and Alfred North Whitehead
<p>The post-secular event within which we live is occasioned as the limit of the secular project. The secular project meets its limit in attempting to separate a religious private sphere from a public sphere while at the same time repeating as a demand a religious subjectivation of the public …
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From ‘Sacred’ to ‘Secular’?: The Hermeneutical Future of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor
This thesis entitled “From ‘Sacred’ to ‘Secular’? The Hermeneutical Future of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor” aims at a deconstructive analysis of religion and secularism in order to explore both its postmodern and post-secular implications. It suggests that Vattimo …
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A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?
In this dissertation, I develop a postcolonial theoretical approach to localized Muslim feminism(s) in Aceh, Indonesia, based on interviews with women in Aceh in 2009 and 2010. One of the central aims of this study is to challenge the dominant exclusivist discourse of "Islamic" feminism by …
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Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
… and religious enchantment seriously in a post-secular world.</p>
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Journeying together towards goodness: participant understanding of practices and narratives in a University of the Nations Discipleship Training School
… in the place of spirituality and religion in the post-secular academy, the global growth of educational institutions in the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement, and the under-researched expression of UofN education taking place in 112 countries in 55 languages indicate potential international impact. …
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Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis, Transatlantic Modernism, and the Discipline of Modernity
… of aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the post-Kantian legacy. Gauging the “post-secular turn” in cultural criticism, the dissertation develops a critique of “epistemic secularism,” which constitutes a normative framework for scholarship in many branches of the humanities. To examine “the …
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Religion and political survival: The regional strategies of Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar
Do Middle Eastern regimes use the contest between secularism and religion as a domestic authoritarian survival strategy, and if so, has this been projected into their regional policies in response to the ‘Arab Spring’? Post-Secular Theory has focused on the role of religion in domestic politics, …
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Decolonising Cosmopolitanism
… from without by Indigenous, Muslim, non-Western, postcolonial, and decolonial scholars, and critical race theorists. This thesis contributes to the double task of decolonial deconstruction and reconstruction necessary for a viable cosmopolitanism in the context of the global transition to a …
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LAICITÀ DELLA REPUBBLICA E PROGRESSO SPIRITUALE DELLA SOCIETÀ
… actualisation of the duties of solidarity in the post-secular landscape.
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PER UN'IDEA DI RELIGIONE COMPATIBILE CON IL MODELLO DEMOCRATICO. LA RIFLESSIONE DI JAN ASSMANN COME CONTRIBUTO AL DIBATTITO POST-SECOLARE
… solo pluraliste e multiculturali ma anche come post-secolari. Lontani dall’assistere alla morte della religione, i gruppi e le tradizioni religiose giocano un ruolo cruciale in numerosi aspetti della vita sociale e culturale, richiedendo di essere inclusi nel dibattito pubblico come legittimi …