Search results for "Secularization"
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Augusto Del Noce: ideologia e politica nell’epoca della secolarizzazione
2021
In questo saggio è messo a tema il modo con cui il marxismo agisce nella realtà europea, ponendone in relazione gli effetti nello scenario dell’epoca della secolarizzazione. Il paradosso consiste nel fatto che il pensiero marxiano diviene un alleato inconsapevole dello spirito borghese, cioè divulgando come parametro dell’azione la logica del consumismo e uno stile di vita secolarizzato. This essay focuses on the way in which Marxism acts in the European reality, relating its effects in the scenario of the age of secularization. The paradox consists in the fact that Marxian thought becomes an unconscious ally of the bourgeois spirit, that is, divulging the logic of consumerism and a secular…
La tesis de la postsecularización a la luz de la trayectoria intelectual de Jürgen Habermas
2019
espanolEl presente trabajo reconstruye argumentativamente el sentido de la idea de una ciudadania postsecular desde la perspectiva de Jurgen Habermas, a la luz de su trayectoria y produccion bibliografica. En primer lugar, ofrecemos una periodizacion de su trayectoria intelectual de acuerdo con la atencion prestada y la consideracion que juega la cuestion religiosa en cada una de las fases. Sobre la base de esta periodizacion y vision de conjunto, nos es posible apresar el sentido intrateorico del concepto normativo de postsecularizacion, y mostrar hasta que punto esta tesis constituye un giro en la trayectoria intelectual de Habermas. Despues, exponemos criticamente el sentido de las ultim…
LA PREGHIERA POST-SECOLARIZZATA DEI MILLENNIALS
2019
The article discusses the theme of prayer understood as a process of individual research of a secular spirituality rather than as a ritual practice among members of the same faith. Trough the answers given by a sample of 1026 students of Palermo University, the prayer appears as the result of a individualization’s process and assumes post-secularized connotations. The answers given during the focus groups conducted, identify in the choice of Millennials to ‘pray’ an activity of reflection that goes beyond the autopoietic and self-referential dimension.Millennials’ pray is a self-reflexive prayer that often questions the great themes of this time – euthanasia, abortion, procreative choices, …
Religion and Civil Society: Theoretical Reflections
2013
Using World Values Survey data, this chapter begins with the global distinctiveness of European societies in terms of both religious vitality and support for the public role of religion. They exhibit a secularity that has been challenged in recent years by an unexpected return of religion as a contentious public issue. The chapter then asks, which theories in the social sciences can help to think constructively through the challenges of religion and civil society in such media-rich, religiously diverse, consumer-oriented secularised societies? It begins with sociology of religion, arguing that while secularisation and rational choice theories shed light on some developments, their conceptua…
Paths to the recognition of homo-parental adoptive rights in the EU-27: a QCA analysis
2015
ABSTRACTAlthough the recognition of the adoptive rights of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) couples is a socially salient topic, cross-national variation regarding this issue has been largely underexplored in social science research. With the aid of configurational analysis, this article fills this gap and shows the conditions that explain the recognition of the adoptive rights of homosexual couples in the countries of the EU-27. It is argued that two different paths led to this outcome. All countries where adoptive rights were recognized had higher degrees of secularization and lower levels of social homophobia. In addition, in Northern European countries, the Protestant back…
Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
2022
This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions of ‘religion’ and ‘belief’, it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation that will appeal to students, scholars, and everyone interested in secularity, Victorian culture, the history of technology, and the temporalities of modernity. Rethinking Secular Time in Victorian England
The dawn of the secular state? Heritage and identity in Swedish church and state debates 1920–1939
2015
This article provides a study of political positions concerning the role of religion in modern society in Sweden between 1920 and 1939. It aims to increase understanding of the Swedish secularization path, with special emphasis on issues related to heritage and national identity, by comparing the dominant perspectives on these issues in the Church of Sweden and in the Social Democratic Party during that period. It addresses how these positions have influenced policies during the period, as well as some of their implications for later path dependence. It explores relations between religious issues and the concept of national heritage, as well as how the fact that both were at that time commo…
Liturgiczna inicjacja młodzieży pokolenia „millenialsów plus”. Perspektywy i próba akomodacji
2021
The present study is a reflection on the state of faith of the young Christian generation belonging to so-called millennials and their children, called here “millennials plus”. In the first part, the author reflects on the level of secularization of the modern world and its impact on youth. Then, the phenomenon of contemporary youth is outlined, along with some characteristics of the millenials generation. This part is followed by presentation of the liturgical life is in the perspective of the wider reality. At the end of this paper one can find some postulates for pastoral use in the liturgical initiation of the millennial plus generation.
Religion and State in the European Union
2011
The “crucifix debate” and the full-face veil ban in France are just a few examples from a long list of problems concerning the relations between the religion and the state in the European countries that have involved the European public opinion over the last years. The article aims to present the complex picture of Church-state relations in Europe in the context of the intensification of all-European debate on the place of religion in the European Union. It shows that in spite of the widely recognized secularization thesis in western social sciences most of the European states are the arena of various problems involving the religious dimension and the question about the future role of the r…