Cult of war by Elena Markus, Nina Frolova

“… The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces in Kubinka near Moscow is a quintessential example of the post-Soviet populist ideology, representating a mixture of ostensibly religious values with multiple secular cult objects. …”
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De la sécularisation comme dialectique de la préservation et du dépassement : rupture et résurgence chez William Hale-White (« Mark Rutherford ») by Jean-Michel Yvard

“…Nowadays, two conceptions of secularization oppose each other. The first one perceives the “exit from religion” as well as the advent of a radically new moral and intellectual order as a process of iconoclastic abolition and complete inversion of the initial, foundational religious order. …”
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Kaupangen, krøniken, arkeologien by Monica Kristiansen, Kristian Reinfjord

“… The medieval town of Hamar was one of the Norwegian bishop's seats. Until recently its secular town plan has only been known through chronicle descriptions. …”
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Where does the moral groundwork come from in today’s society? by ks. Piotr Mazurkiewicz

“…The article shows sociological and moral dilemmas of modern liberal democracies resulting from the fact that liberalism has become radically secular. The author raises the issue of the origin of this state of affairs, as well as of paradoxes that arise while these societies search for justification of moral positions.…”
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Adolescencja współczesnej kultury zachodniej –kryzys tożsamościowy i sekularyzacja by Marcin Kłosowski

“…In this perspective, secularization may be seen as a manifestation of such crisis and the militant atheism as a manifestation of negative identity. …”
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Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…This essay sketches the history of the Barbary conflict and considers three fictionalized accounts of Barbary encounter as secular conversion narratives, two of the three demonstrating how even despotic slaveholders could learn to embrace commerce and sentiment.  …”
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Le pouvoir laïque est-il profane ? Classement distinctif et spiritualisation seigneuriale en Haute-Allemagne à la fin du Moyen Âge by Joseph Morsel, Camille Noûs

“…We can then deduce the generic correlation established in this society between social – secular as well as ecclesiastical – domination and the attribution of a more spiritual character to the dominant than to the dominated, who are relegated to the carnal.…”
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St. John Paul II’s Natural Law Legacy and International Human Rights Culture of Human Dignity – A Road to Universal Brotherhood and Peace by Ján Figel

“…The author advocates a return to the core principles of key documents on this subject to counter the influence of various  ideologies and  totalitarian regimes. Highlighting secular and faith-based sources including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Vatican II Council Declaration, the text emphasizes human dignity as the meeting point for religious and secular humanists. …”
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Religion and Social Economic Development of Communities in Nyarushanje Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Ayebare, Agnes

“…The primary reason for this has been the conceptualization of development as a secular project underpinned by the view of modernization and development across the world. …”
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La mosquée de Paris. Construire l’islam français et l’islam en France, 1926-1947 by Naomi Davidson

“…"French Islam" based on a secular and republican model, was used as a means to manage and monitor the North African population in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. …”
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The Quest for a Stable Disk by J. A. Sellwood, R. G. Carlberg

“…Here, we revisit this issue and show that simply eliminating the most nearly circular orbits from Toomre's disk model can inhibit troublesome secular growth. We also present both 2D and 3D simulations of particle disks that remain featureless for over 50 orbit periods. …”
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Wychowanie do zrównoważonego rozwoju w kontekście katolickiej nauki społecznej by Irena Grochowska

“…One of the basic calls of the modern church is to call secular people to engage in the process of evangelization and building the new humanism. …”
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Aspecte ale paradigmei culturale a secolului al XVIII-lea: interdicția întru surparea superstiției norodului by Laura Bădescu

“…It was taken into account the statements expressed by the representatives of the church (official, semiofficial and personal) on the one hand and on the other hand the secular authorities of that age and Romanian intellectuals grouped in the Transylvanian School. …”
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Entre herejía y hechicería: Isabel María de Montoya ante la Inquisición de Toledo (1671) by Vincent Parello

“…The trial of Isabel María de Montoya instructed by the Toledo inquisitorial court in 1671, allows us to enter the realms of superstition and popular beliefs in which the sacred and the secular mingle and saints alternate with daemons. …”
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« On ne peut lutter contre la poussée de l’Esprit » : les mulieres religiosae des Pays-Bas méridionaux du xiiie siècle, un contre-pouvoir ? by Anne-Laure Méril-Bellini Delle Stelle

“…In the course of the thirteenth century, the ecclesial institution challenge this male/female, secular/clerical deal.…”
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The Transition from Song to Poetry in Latvian Literature in the Second Half of the 19th Century by Māra Grudule

“…In the second half of the 18th century, as a result of transferring from a German to a Latvian cultural space, a new genre of song was created by the German pastor Gotthard Friedrich Stender, the secular, didactic and sentimental ziņģe (a term coined from the German verb singen, ‘to sing’). …”
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South Africa’s Weekly Media: Front-Page Reporting 9/11, Preventing Islamophobia by Muhammed Haron

“…Since a radical Muslim group was blamed for this dastardly deed and since Muslims were implicated for this reprehensible act, the secular media expectedly placed the Muslims – in majority and minority settings – around the world under the spotlight. …”
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The spirit that moves. A new society and its first publication by Pieter G. R. de Villiers

“…In fact, it is studied and practised in secular, non-religious contexts. …”
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Où sommes-nous quand nous sommes à l’école ? by Philippe Foray

“…Then, it examines some of consequences about the bind between school and secularization…”
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"Vous venez d’où pour avoir cet accent ?" by Henri Boyer

“…From the combination of notions of speech community and linguistic market we search to highlight the impact of the imaginary of the French language community (ethno-socio-linguistic imaginary) on the dynamics of the official linguistic markets, considering as main driver a secular linguistic ideology : the unilingualism . …”
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