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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"Secularization"”.
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(Non-)Religious Bias in Secularization Research
The theory of secularization posits that religion declines as modernization unfolds. Once a dominant paradigm, it is now one of the most contested areas in the sociology of religion: even rigorous empirical studies reach contradictory conclusions. This PhD thesis asks whether part of this …
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Secularization of Alevis in Turkey. An Extension of Steve Bruce’s Secularization Paradigm and Its Application to Alevi Communities in Turkey
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An exploratory analysis of ideological and organizational secularization
This study was concerned with the utility of the secularization concept for understanding processes of religious change. From initial consideration of the previous sociological treatment of the secularization concept, as found in church-sect literature, it was argued that a redefinition of the …
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Secularization as a Decline in Religious Authority Over Gender
Recent secularization debates have helped to interpret the changing influence of religion over time and over social life. I argue that Chaves' (1994) conception of secularization, that secularization occurs as a decline in religious authority, is an effective theoretical tool for describing …
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Disciples of the state : secularization and state building in the former Ottoman World
Disciples of the State seeks to explain why some former Ottoman states succeeded in effectively secularizing schooling and law and regulating religion upon independence - thereby consolidating state power- whereas others did not. The bulk of the project centers on a detailed investigation of three …
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Effects of social status, religion, and secularization on attitudes toward gender equality among Iranians
… factors, religious/spiritual involvement, and secularization affect attitudes toward gender equality in employment, education, and politics. It also assessed whether gender had a moderating role in the associations between these three sets of factors and the attitudes toward gender equality. …
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The persistent religious gender gap in the Netherlands in times of secularization, 1966-2015
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Accounting for taste: The early American music business and secularization in music aesthetics, 1720--1825
<p>This study redefines popular music in early America as sacred music sung and performed in most churches and, starting in the 1790s, theater music imported from England. Rather than more static secular ballads and traditional dance pieces customarily understood as popular music, sacred and …
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The Effect of Power and Colonialism on Religion and Secularization: Expanding Taylor's A Secular Age
… connections between the process of Euro-Western secularization and its roots in the universalizing project of Christianity. This work asserts that religion, a term often identified with Christianity, developed in conjunction with secularization and concludes that these theoretical constructs …
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Religion, Culture, and Modernity : Some Missiological Implications of the Process of Secularization in East Asia
… study investigates the outcome of the process of secularization in three modernized urban Chinese societies in East Asia and seeks to describe the resultant patterns of change and continuity. Some missiological implications are drawn from the findings of the investigations. Chapter 1 is an account …
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A Study of Nones in Brazil and the USA in Light of Secularization Theory with Missiological Implications
… elements that characterize the theories of secularization used within the sociology of religion. In the absence of a direct biblical text related to the Nones, as they are a phenomenon much later than the biblical period, a suggested biblical framework for mission with the group was chosen …
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The Sacred and the Secular in Religious Philanthropy: Student Perceptions of Secularization and the Ministry of Reconciliation
… are more prepared to confront the conflicts of secularization. Those who have higher levels of personal religiosity, personal community relationships, and religious capital, also experience less stress in reconciliation. Prior religious status shifts and turning points in ones life such as …
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Divine providence and epidemic cholera : a contribution to the study of secularization of thought in nineteenth century England
… disease could provide an index of the process of secularization of thought, and thus contribute to the wider debate on secularization. The results vindicated the use of the concept of providence to explore religious consciousness. They have confirmed the mid-nineteenth century to be a critical …
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Science and the sacred : new technologies within new religions : a reaction to secularization and a reinterpretation of myth
… science within these groups. Exploring both the secularization theory and the rise of scientific ideology as sources that instituted this combination, I will demonstrate that new religious movements incorporating science within the belief system are representing a direct reaction to these …
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The Kenotic Structure of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Secularization
In its classic form the theory of secularization is the story of a Fall. It charts the disenchanting potential of a rupture within the sacred cosmos, said to be responsible for violently sundering human unity with the divine. In most conventional accounts, the secularizing consequences of this …
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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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The Encroachment of Secularism Among Young Ecuadorian Cuencano Mestizos
… to identify key indicators of contemporary secularization discovered through 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 …
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NON - RELIGIOUS DISCOURSES AND THE SECULARIZATION OF THE SECULAR: A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF ORGANIZED NON - RELIGION IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE UNITED KINGDOM (1881-2019).
Nonostante la crescita degli studi sulla non-religione negli ultimi anni, i cambiamenti storici all'interno della secolarità rimangono poco esplorati e vi è una carenza di studi longitudinali estesi sul fenomeno. Questa lacuna deriva, da un lato, dalla mancanza di sufficiente granularità nei …
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