MISSIONAL-DIACONAL PRACTICES IN JAPAN AND SOUTH AFRICA: by J.S. Van der Watt

“…In both – albeit radically different – contexts, the issue of church formation in a secular age is at stake. How can these Reformed faith communities remain relevant in their respective societies? …”
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Parties of Power: Understanding the Significance of Congress and BJP in Shaping Indian Democracy by Younis Ahmad Sheikh, Imran Majeed

“…The Congress Party has a long history linked to India’s independence movement and is associated with a secular and socialist ideology. The BJP, founded in 1980, is associated with Hindu nationalism and has become increasingly influential in recent years. …”
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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, autorreferencial y 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 metodológicamente para ocupar el espacio que le corresponde en los debates seculares en relación a las profundas transformaciones sociales en curso. …”
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MINDFUL HAPPINESS NOWADAYS: by B Lemmelijn

“… Our current times are characterized by a strange paradox. The secularized world we live in no longer embraces Christianity as such nor its concrete praxis in churches. …”
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Pratiques de l’espace hospitalier par les religieuses au XIXe siècle dans les hôpitaux parisiens : préserver un entre-soi religieux et féminin ? by Anne Jusseaume

“…Following the paths of these nuns reveals how Third Republic secularizing measures in the last part of the XIXth century challenged anew the strength of nuns’ religious identity in contrast to their identity as hospital workers.…”
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Walter Xaver z Dietrichsteina na kavalírské cestě (1683–1688) a jeho boj proti předurčené budoucnosti by Lenka Maršálková

“…With that, however, this young man had never reconciled and just during his grand tour there was a major turnaround: on his father he gradually acquired not only directing of his education to be more secular but also the promise that in the future he will be allowed to leave the clergy. …”
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Les femmes et le divorce révolutionnaire : de la réception à la construction de la loi (1791-1796) by Laurie Tetaert, Corinne Gomez-Le Chevanton, Vincent Gourdon, Isabelle Robin

“…This article reexamines the first legalization of divorce in France through the lens of women’s and family history, building on the work begun at the time of the Bicentenary of the Revolution and that of Suzanne Desan on revolutionary family law and its broad social and political effects. The move towards a secular conception of marriage, as well as its definition as a contract in the Constitution of 1791, in practice opened up the possibility of terminating a marriage. …”
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L’instituteur du Code Soleil : la vocation d’un prophète missionnaire by André Pachod

“…This Code words a set of advice and duties to exercise its profession; it also proposes an identity of the teacher in a secular and republican school project in one hand and a national and popular education on the other hand. …”
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Pedagogical Views and Educational Activities of Ismail Gasprinsky by Мухиддин Хайруддинов

“…Gasprinsky spoke up for the synthesis of Muslim doctrine and the achievements of modern science, he created and led the Jadid pedagogical movement aimed at the transition from confessional and Russian civic education to the creation of a national secular education. All his life I. Gasprinsky was defending the interests of the Crimean Tatars, Mus- lims and societies living in conditions of colonial slavery. …”
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A micropolar model for the analysis of dispersive waves in chiral mass-in-mass lattices by A. Bacigalupo, L. Gambarotta

“…The propagation of plane waves travelling along the direction of the lines connecting the ring centres of the lattice is analysed and the secular equation is derived, from which the dispersive functions may be obtained.…”
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PRAYER IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AS SPIRITUAL WISDOM FOR TODAY by C Lombaard

“…The modern sociological interest in religion, spirituality and prayer is indicated, but not explored, with a shared wisdom orientation in aspects of Old Testament life and in the currently unfolding post-secular religio-cultural climate that forms the bridge between the ancient and the modern in the analysis of prayer. …”
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Through the Screen Darkly? Enchantment in Digital Art by Zoltán Körösvölgyi

“…This phenomenon has been addressed in international theory, including studies of the post-secular age and (re)enchantment, as well as in theory combined with curatorial practice (e.g., Groys and Weibel 2011). …”
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Fasts and Feasts in Estonians’ Representations of the Seto Culture by Andreas Kalkun

“…Seto religious piety and feasts were regarded in the young Republic of Estonia as an attack on a common national identity, something that subverted the ideals of abstemious and secular nationalism.…”
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Are humans by birth as wicked as the Heidelberg Catechism (3-11) holds? A dialogue between theology and modern sciences by P. Lampe

“… While the introduction compares the Heidelberg Catechism’s theologically framed concept of sin with similar and opposing secular views of the past (e.g., Plautus, Quintilian, Hobbes), the main part uses contemporary scientific studies to challenge the Catechism’s view that (after alienation from God in the Fall) all human individuals by birth are wicked: incapable of loving others. …”
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L’école musulmane algérienne de Ibn Bâdîs dans les années 1930, de l’alphabétisation de tous comme enjeu politique by Charlotte Courreye

“…The educational action of the Association of Algerian Muslim Ulamas in the 1930s, and particularly of his leader Ibn Bâdîs, has been characterized by the development of schools teaching religious sciences as well as elementary secular sciences. The defence of Arabic language and Islam in colonial context gave a particularly political dimension to their action. …”
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Mujeres y liturgia parroquial by Raquel Torres Jiménez

“…This paper analyses some aspects of the religious life of common secular women, neither religious nor wealthy ─a topic rarely addressed in historiography─, living in rural villages of the Calatrava lordship in Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries. …”
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Ortodoks teologi ved en skillevej by Emil Hilton Saggau

“…This relationship to the state is a pragmatic embrace of secular power with theological roots, but the war has revealed the tension in Orthodox political theology. …”
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Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…It shows that Benjamin’s specific contribution to this body of literature is the invention of a secular mythology, with a clear application to architecture in Benjamin’s focus on the ‘boundless interiorisation’ of glass and iron construction. …”
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As práticas de caridade na diocese de Mariana: estímulos devocionais, interditos e protestos anónimos no século XVIII by Patrícia Ferreira dos Santos

“… Neste artigo analisamos algumas acções da hierarquia eclesiástica e secular na diocese de Mariana no sentido de condicionar a acção dos esmoleres e ermitães e incentivar a caridade institucional. …”
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Ennahdha et les salafistes : la construction relationnelle de la « modération » by Théo Blanc

“…This article proposes to go beyond the institutionalist lens of the inclusion-moderation theory and the asymmetrical approach of the cooperation-moderation theory by pointing out how Ennahdha’s moderation was articulated in a double pressure between secular actors and radical Islamic actors (Salafis). …”
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