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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"secularisation"”.
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Catholicism in Italian cinema in the age of ‘the new secularisation’ (1958-1978)
… it is during this period—referred to as “the new secularisation”—that the fragmentation underlying Italian Catholicism emerged with clarity. Within this context, the five chosen films offer ideal case studies to assess the plurality of attitudes towards Catholicism in that period: not only do they …
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Catholicism in Italian cinema in the age of ‘the new secularisation’ (1958-1978)
… it is during this period—referred to as “the new secularisation”—that the fragmentation underlying Italian Catholicism emerged with clarity. Within this context, the five chosen films offer ideal case studies to assess the plurality of attitudes towards Catholicism in that period: not only do they …
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Philanthropy and secularisation : the funding of Anglican religious voluntary organisations in London 1856-1914
… with the key wider themes of philanthropy and secularisation. The assumption of this thesis is that modern religious bodies have to function as economic agents, that they need steady sources of income, and have to have mechanisms to raise sufficient funds on an annual basis. It argues that the …
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Keeping faith: secularisation and its influence on the governance of primary schools in Northern Ireland
The main aim of this thesis is to examine secularisation and its influence on school governance of primary schools of different management types in Northern Ireland. This thesis is guided by two central research questions. The first is concerned with the perceived extent of secularisation in …
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Saintly ecstasies: the appropriation and secularisation of saintly imagery in the paintings and poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Using unpublished source material at Princeton University, the University of British Columbia, the British Library and the National Art Library in the V&A, this thesis aims to broaden current scholarly understanding regarding Rossetti's exposure to, interest in, and subsequent appropriation of …
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Why people don't go to church : a study of factors associated with non-participation and participation in church in Australia
… aim is to identify to what extent theories of secularisation and other theories of religious change receive support from these empirical findings, as well as from other social surveys and historical sources examined in the study. In order to address the primary research aim, a random sample, …
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Contemporary Public Debate on Religion: Parliamentary Debate on Church Property Restitution and its Taxation in the Czech Republic
… and empirically informed questions pertaining to secularisation. The finding was that it was not religion necessarily, but rather matters of finances, legality, and procedure that figured quite prominently in the debate. Despite this, closer analysis revealed some relevant reflection on religion, …
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The philosophies of history of Herder and Hegel
… respectively, but also to the gently progressing secularisation of Christian values that pervades the contemporary age. While Herder conceived of God traditionally, as a transcendent Being, he also sowed the seeds for Hegel’s philosophy in which God is realised immanently through the development …
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Sapere critico e cultura civile nel Settecento italiano: Muratori e Genovesi
… renewal that remains on the thresholds of secularisation.
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Secolarizzazione e ricomposizione del sacro in Italia: il caso delle comunità parrocchiali della Garfagnana
… included in the wider debate regarding the secularisation process, mainly focuses on the ways in which nowadays secularisation and de-secularisation can coexist in a specific context, convening, at times adding to each other, and thus generating, through a process of decomposition and …
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Funding the centrally managed work of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
… of income and membership are expressions of secularisation. It researches the historical growth in the Society’s centrally managed work and the development of an organisational structure to support this. It considers recent past experience when the perceived importance of the work led Quakers …
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Future tense : an analysis of science fiction as secular apocalyptic literature
… a constant state of crisis in terms of the rapid secularisation, industrialisation and urbanisation, and it would seem that the notion of an apocalypse is still relevant. But religious visions of the apocalypse do not seem to have relevance to the largely secular society they would have been …
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Defenders of the Faith? Religion and Right-wing Populism in Germany, France and the United States in the 21st Century
… On the one hand, it revisits social cleavage and secularisation theory to investigate how new socio-cultural, economic and religious developments in the electorate of the three case studies (demand-side factors) have created demand for right-wing populist politics and their religious references. …
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Towards formative interpretation: a theological hermeneutical proposal
… show the negative effects of pluralism and secularisation that dominate in the field of hermeneutics. Our work then focuses on the development of a theological hermeneutics, within which formative interpretation receives stable goals and criteria. This we achieve in three steps; one, we …
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Giambattista Vico’s readers in mid-nineteenth-century France, c. 1820-1850
… the combined development of theories of French secularisation and modernisation alongside an ever-present concern with the ritualistic basis of the nation’s cultural and political life.
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Attitudes in Britain towards its Armed Forces and war 1960-2000
… greater self-interest amongst many, increasing secularisation, and greater tolerance, yet conversely, points to underlying themes of pride in individual servicemen and the institution of the Armed Forces.
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Authenticity and the transformation of the Camino : an analysis of secular pilgrimage in contemporary academic literature
… and Charles Taylor and their theories of secularisation in order to bring in a philosophical account of meaning and access deep ontological differences in order to support my argument for the distinction between religious pilgrimage, secular pilgrimage and tourism. In order to focus the …
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Debating Islamism, modernity and the West in Turkey. The role of the Welfare Party
… The study employs important concepts such as secularisation, nationalism, the modern state, economic development (science, technology, industrialisation), capitalism and democracy as important components of modernity. (It also provides a general analysis of Islamism in the Middle East …
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Living in two worlds: A study of the variety and characteristics of church life and policies in selected Church of England parishes
… The model is based on a study of the process of secularisation which is seen to influence the local churches towards their becoming specialist religious organisations. The variety of ways in which churches respond to this influence is an important part of understanding the differences between …
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By knot of one, the spell’s begun: Finding the Wiccan Path. An investigation of conversion practices within the Wicca community.
… members, but also the more general aspects of secularisation, desacralisation and the re-enchantment of the world, and the implication of religiosity and spirituality in postmodern communities of practice.
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