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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"secularity"”.
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The Pervasive Emptiness: Acedia, Modernity, and the Boredom of Secularity
<p>A case can be made that the greatest fear of our time is the fear of boredom. We live in an age in which things change daily. New technologies are developed, old inventions are reconceived, the entertainment industry churns out movies, shows, and music constantly, and yet, people still …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… developed in response to an emerging kind of secularity. My first chapter engages post-secularism as a framework for understanding how paganism responds to this new sense of secularity, which I demonstrate formed alongside developments in geology, archaeology, and anthropology. In chapter two, …
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Religion and the public sphere: the spatial theory of Michel de Certeau and religious space
… debate of the relationship of religion and secularity is ongoing. Religion continues as a matter of increasing interest as public expressions of religion challenge perceived social norms that are often expressed using dichotomies of private and public, reason and belief, sacred and secular. …
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From ‘Sacred’ to ‘Secular’?: The Hermeneutical Future of Religion in the Thought of Gianni Vattimo and Charles Taylor
… Taylor’s reflection on the foundation of secularity is delivered in four segments: 1) an historical approach to his concept of secularism, 2) his attempt at overcoming epistemology and its implications for understanding secularism, 3) a re-appraisal of his philosophical sources of …
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The Kenotic Structure of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Secularization
… secularization the association of modernity with secularity has not. The idea that the worldliness and rationality of modern culture lacks spiritual depth remains axiomatic in the social sciences today. Indeed its logic animates recent scholarship identifying the return of the sacred in the …
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"The Medieval Bestiary In The Golden Age: Allegory And Emblem In Gracian's ""el Criticon"" (physiologus, Carnival, Grotesque, Beast, Mask)"
… versus optimism and Christianity versus secularity in El Criticon have always been issues without resolution. Many critics erroneously assume that because Gracian was a Jesuit and Spain a Catholic country that therefore El Criticon was an optimistic, Christian work. Through an examina- …
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Toward Engaging the Secular: Charles Taylor's Modern Social Imaginaries, Human Flourishing, and Theological Method
… imaginaries and the accompanying theses of secularity. This study shows how, in Taylor's view, secularists have derived their self-understanding and ethos of economic human flourishing by way of continual shifts and interactions in perceptions of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and …
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Sharī’a Implementation in The Context of Tanzania Mainland: An Analysis of Its Debate, Practice and Inlfuence in Christian-Muslim Relations
… events to the local context. Furthermore, State secularity should be perpetuated and religions should not be a driving force in political decisions. Lastly, The Government should find proper mechanism to address State-religion relations and citizens’ grievances.
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Religious and secular places: understanding the changing geographies of religion in Ireland
… the decline of religious faith and an increasing secularity. A re-evaluation of this is currently underway within human geography. This takes account of the fact that the secular does not so much replace the sacred as exist in relation to it. This is a productive relationship and is seen in …
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Higher Education Chaplaincy and the Changing Role of Religion in the Public Square : a contextual theology for university chaplaincy
… of the essentially diverse nature of secularity, on the dialogical accounts of the university offered by Ford and Higton and an understanding of Christian responses to otherness through hospitality drawn from the work of Barnes and Bretherton. The thesis argues for the importance of …
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From Crises to Ordinary Precarity: Palestinian Youth as New Practitioners of Humanitarian Governance in Amman, Jordan
… camps, and shows how taxonomies of religion and secularity do not account for the complexity of these negotiations. By considering intersectional factors like overlapping displacement, histories of care, and an evolving and gendered camp identity, my findings contribute to many fields including …
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'May God Cure You': Contemporary Egyptian Therapeutic Landscapes Between Qur'anic Healing And Psychiatry
… this research contributes to the analysis of secularity and the secular by showing that the kinds of knowledges and therapeutic practices usually described as either scientific or religious are not, in fact, easily categorized as such, despite the emphasis put in public debates on drawing the …
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Conscience, ethics and politics: beyond beautiful souls
… Taylor’s work on moral inarticulacy and secularity, so as to contextualize the problem of conscience and show why people are pressured to rely on conscience as a moral principle despite the problem. Then I introduce the beautiful soul as a compelling depiction of what it feels like to …
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Rethinking Secular and Sacred. On the Role of Secular Thought in Religious Conflicts.
… thesis became to analyze the various models of secularity, find the most beneficial principles, and construct from these a model for secular best practice. That Osama bin Laden¿s words should catalyze this thesis brings me to two important points. First, this is not a thesis about Islam. If a …
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Understanding Secularized People of Metro Manila: A Case Study Approach for a Contextualized Urban Ministry Strategy
… missiologists postulate about the spectrum of secularity and the variety of secularism in different context. Since Metro Manila is one of the world's top highly urbanized and densely populated cities, the Seventh-day Adventist Church encounters challenges in reaching its secularized people. It …
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Novel faiths: nonsecular fiction in the late-nineteenth-century U.S.
… and that modernity rests in part upon their secularity, or turn away from shared religious worldviews. I argue instead that the mid- to late-nineteenth-century U.S. novel could be, and often was, consciously oriented toward modernity and the nonsecular. My theory of the novel centers on the …
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Proselytizing Problem-Solving:The Religious and Secular Values of Engineering for Good
Over the last 20 years, "engineering for good" has grown into a widespread phenomenon premised on the belief that engineers can and should combine technical expertise with the desire to make positive change. In the United States and abroad, many organizations conduct projects that enroll over ten …
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The Politics Of Atheism In The West
Though the term "atheism" encompasses all persons without belief in god(s), more people claim unbelief in god(s) than describe themselves as "convinced atheists" in every society on earth. While the extant social science research on religion and secularism rigorously explores the nuances of the …
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Quantum Regimes: Genealogies of Virtual Matter and Healing the New Age Body
<p>This dissertation makes sense of New Age healing practices and the spiritual currents undergirding the increasingly popular landscape of alternative healthcare. To do so, it argues, we must first determine its material ontology – the conception of materiality that shapes how New Agers understand …
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