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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Postsecular"”.
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Postsecular Victorians: literature, culture, and belief
… many of the key insights of the so-called “postsecular turn,” the work of these Victorian writers offers an ideal archive through which to show the various ways in which religion and modernity have been mutually constitutive. Ruskin’s series of essays in Unto This Last uses revamped …
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Discourse on civilization: postliberal postsecular histories of the ghetto
This work is a psychoanalytic anthropology of the city in the postcolony. It is located in Europe's most fragile settler colony in the South of Africa, and set within Apartheid's most privileged multi–culture, the Oriental Ghetto of Bo– Kaap, Cape Town. The project introduces the theoretical …
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Babel's Apology: Religious Nostalgia and Literary Engagement with the Postsecular Age
Postsecularism has recently become a popular field of inquiry in literary criticism, but literary critics frequently overlook religious writers and texts in their studies. This dissertation argues that religious works share many similar traits with the established canon of postsecular literature …
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Feminism in Multicultural Societies: An analysis of Dutch Multicultural and Postsecular Developments and their Implications for Feminist Debates
It was long assumed that both multiculturalism and feminism are connected to progressive movements and hence have comparable and compatible goals. However, both in academia and in popular media the critique on multiculturalism has grown and is often accompanied with arguments related to gender …
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Life Between Construction Sites and Reconfiguring Public Space: The Current Case of Istanbul
… research further argues that a secular versus postsecular dichotomy has emerged and the government’s postsecular Islamist ideology is erasing secular memory, while giving ‘rights to the city’ to certain groups of people.
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Time Machines: technology, temporality, and the Victorian social imaginary
… towards the development of a genuinely postsecular paradigm for future research into the nature of Victorian modernity.
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Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
… a critical approach that combines elements of postsecular studies and the blue humanities, I examine how authors from various Christian denominations across the long nineteenth century narrate shipwrecks within the structures of denominationally-inflected religious forms. This dissertation …
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
… McClure puts it in his book, Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (2007), a “crasser” spirituality, so to speak. But even between these two apparent, yet ultimately, false poles—the religious and the secular—there are others for whom the concern falls …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… Two examines A Hidden Life as an example of postsecular cinema. Focusing on its largely overlooked aesthetics of inversion, equivocation, and irony, I show how its protagonists, particularly Franz Jägerstätter, conceive, misconceive, and reconceive home as they negotiate the overlaps and …
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Performance, Design, Display: Making Occultures in Ithell Colquhoun's Archive c.1920–1960
… of modernity and enchantment. Across a postsecular reading of the archive, Colquhoun’s work is shown to modify, and itself be modified by, a transnational occultural milieu in which the discursive and imagined boundaries between magical and secular contexts are continually made and …
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Author and Believer: Exploring the Mystery of Faith in the Works of Flannery O’Connor, Marilynne Robinson, and Alice McDermott
… that has emerged within this discussion of “the postsecular” aligns with the perspectives of many who often see religion categorized and reduced in a way that does not correlate with the way they experience religious belief. If experiences of lived belief are not matching the categorizations and …