This study examines the secular direction of the process of change which took place within the West European Sephardi Diaspora in the 17th Century by referring to two separate historical and social meanings which the term "secularisation" can have within Jewish society. One mean…
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This thesis is an exploration of the motives, mentalities and collective identities which lay behind acts of popular anticlerical violence and iconoclasm during the pre-war Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). The five year period following …
The two decades that preceded the 2011 revolutions in Egypt and Syria, especially the 1990s, witnessed animated debates on "tanwir," the Arabic version of Enlightenment ideas that date to the nahda, or Arab cultural renaissance, movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
"What does it really mean to be modern? The contributors to this collection offer critical attempts both to re-read Max Weber's historical idea of disenchantment and to develop further his understanding of what the contested relationship between modernity and religion represents…
Proceedings of the first Conference of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, held in Milan in January 2009.--Preface.
"Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer…
Rethinking secularism
by Calhoun, Craig J., Juergensmeyer, Mark, VanAntwerpen, Jonathan
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