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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Secularism"”.
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Secularism Narratives And Arab American Fiction
"Secularism Narratives and Arab American Fiction" focuses on contemporary fiction's challenge to the liberal political construction of minority religious practices and community life as incompatible with modernity, progress, and secularism. U.S. secularism is not simply the absence of religion from …
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Moral Landscapes: Religion, Secularism, and Symbolic Boundaries
<p>This dissertation is a comparison of three religious congregations and one secular congregation on the moral boundaries they use to understand themselves and others. Through a newly developed graphical instrument, in-depth interviews, and surveys, this dissertation shows that contemporary …
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The Encroachment of Secularism Among Young Ecuadorian Cuencano Mestizos
… literary resources documenting the rise of secularism in Western culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. After identifying these key cultural markers of secularization, I demonstrate that these characteristics are present among the younger generation of Ecuadorian Cuencano mestizos …
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The Contours of Secularism in South Asian Minority Writing
… explores the intricate relationship between secularism and identity in South Asian minority writing. Though India and Sri Lanka were founded as secular states in the 1940s, they have consistently failed to protect the rights of religious and ethnic minorities since the 1980s. Thus, critics …
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Dissident Secularism: Queer Exegesis, Transatlantic Modernism, and the Discipline of Modernity
… dissertation develops a critique of “epistemic secularism,” which constitutes a normative framework for scholarship in many branches of the humanities. To examine “the secular limits of discipline” at the junction of queer theory and modernist studies, it examines how literary critics and queer …
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Caught between Islam and the West: secularism in the Kemalist discourse
… Islam was characterised by its peculiar brand of secularism. Orientalism portrayed the East as irrational in all aspects of the economic, political and social realms. In contrast the West was rational, enlightened, scientific, determined to keep its destiny at its hands, hardworking, honest, and …
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A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon
My dissertation, “A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon,” explores the ways in which the literary imagination pushes beyond ideology, and points towards notions of the eternal, by attunement and fidelity to the material. In the terms of Rowan Williams, “if a …
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Reconfiguring French Secularism: The Mosque as the New Multicultural Space of Young Muslims
<p>This dissertation explores the ways in which secularism communicates with Islam both as a socio-political concept and as daily practice in the context of France. Most studies examine this process through the uses of the headscarf or within the framework of terrorism. This study suggests a fresh …
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The Dialectics of Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: The Case of Said Nursi
… strategies in the context of the development of secularism in Turkey. This study starts with the exploration of the development of the secularist movement and its discourse with regard to philosophical foundations of (1) the construction of reality, (2) the self and (3) the society. This is …
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Iris Murdoch and the art of imagination: imaginative philososphy as response to secularism
This dissertation examines the work of the British philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch. A centre concern of this work is a question Murdoch poses more than once: ‘How can we make ourselves morally better?” This question is understood to initiate a form of philosophy which is critical of much of …
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From ‘Sacred’ to ‘Secular’?: The Hermeneutical Future of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor
… at a deconstructive analysis of religion and secularism in order to explore both its postmodern and post-secular implications. It suggests that Vattimo and Taylor’s philosophies of religion and secularism exemplify the key features of a defining feature of the post-modern world. Their …
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A Comparative Analysis of Islamist Movements in the Neoliberalization Process: Jama’at-e- Islami in Pakistan and the Fethullah Gulen Movement in Turkey — Reactions to Capitalism, Modernity and Secularism
… the assessment by Islamic groups of modernity, secularism and their place within it as a mutually constitutive process. I will conduct this analysis utilizing two country case studies: that of Turkey and Pakistan, each within the context of the theoretical frameworks of Karl Marx, Max Weber and …
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Religion, politics and the secular state in India
… adopted. From its inception the weaknesses of secularism as an operational category was apparent, but was ignored by politicians as well as by academics. 'Secularism' has since then not been defined in terms of the institutions of the state or the dominant values of the political system. It was …
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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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"Women With No One": Community and Christianity in a Secular South Indian Homeless Shelter
… opportunity to query the everyday experience of secularism and pluralism. Shelter board members emphasize these concepts as guiding principles of the institution. Indeed, they are touted in many settings as a necessary and laudable framework for democratic life in globalized and increasingly …
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'A Deep and Imperturbable Joy': Saving Christianity from Postmodern Evangelical Heresy
… evangelical heresy' is defined by Schmemann as 'secularism.' Secularism is not the rejection of God but the rejection of the 'ontological sacramentality' of the life of man. The concluding argument posits that evangelicals could arguably reinvigorate their worship by looking to reclaim a central …
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Slaughtering sacred cows: rebutting the narrative of decline in the British secular movement from the 1890s to 1930s
… not been traditionally associated with organised secularism. It also examines the confusion of terms that surround the history of secularism and how they are interrelated. The dissertation covers the period from the 1890s to the 1930s, with contextualization from the earlier nineteenth century …
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After the Demolition: Constructing the Communal Riots of 1992--1993 in the Indian Media
… continuing strength of the hegemony built around secularism has forced even those on the Hindu right to position themselves as the ""true"" secularists in order to retain legitimacy. A new consensus can be said to be building around ""secular-cultural nationalism"" rather than a rabid Hindutva …
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Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity in Discursive Formation
… discourses concerning science, religion, and secularism from the early twentieth century to mid-century. I trace how Kallen gained social capital through the popular press, and then used that capital to negotiate a new understanding of the place of Jews in America, becoming an architect of …
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Liturgy and the public square : from inauthentic workshop to credible witness
… Enlightenment thinking and the individualism and secularism that came along with it are traced. Indications are found that, especially during the later phases of apartheid, the value-free mentality that accompanies modernism the breeding ground for a status quo religion. What Willie Jonker calls …
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