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This book shows that widespread resacralisation has been taking place, which is producing new ways of perceiving God and the divine. The last century has seen unmistakable changes in religious practices and the concept of spirituality right across the world. There was a broad ex…
How do Islamic institutions of learning prepare their students for life in modern democratic societies and support civil society? In light of the increasingly heated public debate about Islamic education this question may appear counterintuitive. Especially after the events of N…
Classical social theorists such as Marx, Weber, and Durkheim all predicted that modern society would inevitably secularize and that religion's role in the modern world would diminish. Following these classical theorists, development studies--starting with the early modernization…
This dissertation is an analysis of the modernization of Muslim societies in Russia during the 18th and 19th centuries in the context of events leading up to and influencing this process. It is also an explication of how history can be understood as an ongoing battle among epist…
For more than seventy years the Soviet Union devoted immense educational efforts and cruel repression in order to eliminate all aspects of religious belief and practice, not only in the many Soviet Republics, but, following World War II, in the satellite nations of eastern Europ…
This book contributes to the ongoing academic debates on secularisation--or the marginalisation of mainstream religious beliefs and practices--in twentieth-century British society. It addresses three areas in which the current literature is weak: the 'agency of organised religio…
This book contributes to the ongoing academic debates on secularisation--or the marginalisation of mainstream religious beliefs and practices--in twentieth-century British society. It addresses three areas in which the current literature is weak: the 'agency of organised religio…
This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland in broad terms. It contributes to the recent renewed interest in the history of religion in Finland and the Nordic countries by bringing together researchers in history, political science, economics, social psych…
This volume analyses the societal legacy of Lutheranism in Finland in broad terms. It contributes to the recent renewed interest in the history of religion in Finland and the Nordic countries by bringing together researchers in history, political science, economics, social psych…
The Re-Enchantment of the world is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as "disenchanted." There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the "progress…
The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism--political and civil equality, minorit…
This book challenges the modern myth that tolerance grows as societies become less religious. The myth inseparably links the progress of toleration to the secularization of modern society. This volume scrutinizes this grand narrative theoretically and empirically, and proposes a…
The research focuses on the development of modern education, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from its beginnings to the present. The dissertation discusses current major issues and projects future prospects for development. Modern educati…