Mindset, Schism and the Contemporary Transformation of the Anglican Communion by Geoffrey A Sandy

“…However, it is something that is general and fundamental, which operates in society for both the religious and secular domains.…”
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Entre patrimoine et développement durable, quel avenir pour les églises paroissiales ? by Mélanie Meynier-Philip

“…Within the framework of a PhD in Architecture, the research tackles the future of the parochial churches of the Lyon Saint-Étienne urban area, in a context of accelerated secularization of Western societies. Faced with an increasing desertion – disappearance of parishioners and their religious use –their use value, linked to their potential of reconversion, as well as to their affective value, carried by a heritage community, allow them to have a future. …”
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A Critical Book Review of Civil Society and Democracy in the Middle East by SeyedSaeid ZahedZahedani

“…Mostly at this phase, Islamic societies resist development because of its secular, humanist, and experimental sciences bases.  …”
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Fêtes et processions de Maaloula : une mise en scène des identités dans l’espace d’un village chrétien by Sylvia Chiffoleau

“…The enactment and resulting identities, marked by strong Syrian influence, emerge as a process of renewal and modernization leading to social change, global integration and to religious and secular independence. The festivals of Maaloula assume a utopian dimension and suggest that another world is possible, a world based on freedom.…”
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Os físicos e a medicina da alma no Orto do Esposo by Marisa das Neves Henriques

“…Health is synoym of salvation, so there is no secular science that could stand such noble project.Christ, the caelestis medicus, and the holy Bible, are the protagonists of a soul’s medicine that Orto do Esposo prescribes in detail. …”
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El lugar de la Antropología audiovisual: metodología participativa y espacios profesionales by Juan Robles

“…La Antropología audiovisual conecta de modo directo con la esencia misma de la Antropología sociocultural,la cual pretende vincularse a la orientación pública, que se quiere teórica y aplicada, autorreferencialy compartida, que busca la superación de la parálisis metadiscursiva vinculada a la crisis representacional,desde la integración en el texto fílmico del encuentro intercultural y ante la necesidad de relegitimarse metodológicamentepara ocupar el espacio que le corresponde en los debates seculares en relación a las profundastransformaciones sociales en curso. …”
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Transformation in the Wisdom Books of the Hebrew Bible and its application to the context of Southern Africa by S. Fischer

“…Finally, the article proposes that a secular society should be an enabler of different religious traditions. …”
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So what are we really talking about? A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Keywords and Collocations in the »Theologische Quartalsschrift« by Matthias Werner

“…The study enhances understanding of German Catholic Theology, providing transparency and objective insights in order to provide a clear explanation of Catholic Theology to outsiders, even in secularized contexts. To insiders, this approach enables the discovery of blind spots and fosters discourse in scientific theology by making discussions explicit. …”
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Where have all the bishops gone? by J. E. Wehrmeyer

“…The paper shows that the New Testament episkopo`~ functions as a term with meanings similar to its secular use in ancient times as well as its use in the Septuagint. …”
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État de droit et droits indigènes dans le contexte d’une post-dictature : portrait de la criminalisation du mouvement mapuche dans un Chili démocratique by Fabien Le Bonniec

“…The state violence which results from this confrontation is not a recent phenomenon, it's part of a secular relationship of domination/subordination between Chilean and indigenous societies, based on obsolete national ideologies that the Mapuche are questioning today in order to free themselves both physically and symbolically.…”
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« You Can Be Good Without God »: Non-Believers in 21st Century American Society by Amandine Barb

“…Based on interviews with secular groups and relying in part on identity politics theory, the article questions, through the study of non-believers’ activism in today’s United States, the moral and social status of religion in a society apparently turning away from organized faiths, but where belief in God still remains exceptionally strong.…”
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The Imagination in the Life and Thought of John Henry Newman by Terrence Merrigan

“…Newman was convinced that all beliefs—religious, secular or political—must first be credible to the imagination and that the religious object is only adequately appropriated via an imaginative process that calls to mind the working of the literary imagination. …”
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« Homosexualiser » un rituel chrétien. Le Fêtez-Dieu de l’association David & Jonathan by Mickaël Durand

“…This ritual is neither a traditional rite nor a practice pertaining to “secular forms of religiosity.” Based on ethnographical observations and in-depth interviews with members of the organization David & Jonathan, this article shows how the Fêtez-Dieu articulates a religious socialization and a homosexual socialization, thus encouraging the process of identity tension reduction. …”
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Le diable à Cîteaux : le procès pour sorcellerie de Regnault Robergeot (1480-1481) by Maxime Gelly-Perbellini

“…This article analyzes the witchcraft trial of Regnault Robergeot, prosecuted between December 1480 and January 1481 by the secular justice of Cîteaux Abbey in Corcelles-lès-Cîteaux. …”
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Exhibiting the Exotic, Simulating the Sacred: Tibetan Shrines at British and American Museums by Imogen Clark

“…It explores the tension between “secular” and “religious” in shrine installations, and questions the relevance of these concepts for Tibetan material culture. …”
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An exclusionist Europe? Islam and the reemergence of civic nationalism by Alberto Spektorowski

“…Este articulo introduce un planteamiento critico a los debates que rodean a este levantamiento cívico nacionalista .El articulo sugiere que las exigencias de libertad religiosa fundadas en principios teológicos por parte de los Musulmanes han catalizado una respuesta nacionalista secular que restringe el valor universal de las libertades liberales. …”
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Ecological challenges to ethics by Władysław Zuziak

“…In the last part of the paper there is a proposal to create a new ethics, appropriate for us and the world, which would be an extension and refinement of Christian ethics in dialogue with contemporary secular trends.…”
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Représenter le passage dans l’au‑delà : les images de rites funéraires sur les tombeaux (xiii e‑xiv e siècles) by Haude Morvan

“…This context favoured the emergence and dissemination of painted and sculpted representations of the rites accompanying agony and death on the tombs of several secular and religious elite members. They display a relatively standardised iconography that focuses on a few elements, in particular the absolution and elevatio animae, which both mark the passage from the world of the living to that of the dead. …”
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La escritura borrada de las mujeres. Itinerarios lectores inclusivos y (re)construcción del canon poético / The erased writing of women. Inclusive reading itineraries and (re)const... by Remedios Sánchez-García, Pablo Aparicio-Durán

“…Este artículo aborda el modo en que las estructuras patriarcales han silenciado el discurso poético de las mujeres en el siglo XX español, perpetuando los modelos seculares de la tradición. El punto de partida teórico muestra cómo se ha construido el canon literario a partir de la historia y la ideología dominante para promover su difusión a través del canon escolar reproducido en los materiales didácticos utilizados en la educación literaria. …”
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La cuestión religiosa como factor de conflictividad política durante la Segunda República by Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez

“…The Second Republic did not try to put an end to religion and the Catholic Church, but to lay the foundations for the laicization of the State and the secularization of society. The measures adopted in this sense, nevertheless, turned to be a failure. …”
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