Using survey data and a multi-level time-lagged linear regression, we show that cultural values are primal in the human development sequence. The spread of advantageous cultural values - like respect for individual rights - predicts future economic development and democracy. The…
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The dissertation looks at the enduring nature of religious nationalism in certain European states in spite of the broader trend towards secular identity. Through a combination of in-depth case studies (Ireland, England, Poland, Greece) and cross-case analysis, I argue that relig…
In this research, I explore the relationship between religion and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. My goal is to find out in what ways belonging to a particular denomination and participation in church related activities influence societal support for democracy. Favorabl…
Westphalian secularism is neither universal nor 'rational' but Western, the product of a historical process, and it is unintended, cumulative, and incomplete. The recollection of its contingency, specificity and features is an essential prerequisite to overcoming the consistent …
It is very common to defend laiklik by invoking laïtcité. This dissertation puts the constitutions of laiklik and laïcité in their respective historical contexts, in order to locate the reasons behind the changes in the meanings of the concepts and behind the changes in the conc…
This study investigates the practices of religious management used by radical modernizing states, usually labeled 'secular.' The method applied is a comparative historical study of institutional and ideological practices, principally legal and educational reforms, as revealed in…
This study aims to examine Turkish religious women's attitudes toward gender with respect to family, education, the workplace, and politics. Turkey makes an interesting case for studying the links between religion and perceptions about women's social opportunities. As a modern s…
The role of religion has been enigmatic in the study of war and International Relations. In the age of secularization, the discipline has been largely dismissive of the significance of religion, but it has become increasingly accepted in the last several decades that it is indee…
This dissertation is a study of how modern America talks about death. I examine these discussions in roughly three spheres (popular, professional, and personal) by analyzing the release and reception of the best-selling book on death and dying in the past fifty years, over seven…
In this dissertation, I explore the interaction between religious and artistic expressions as manifest in the religious quests of the early Russian modernists in the first decade of the twentieth century. Artists and thinkers of the era grappled with this tension as they sought …
After the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church appeared to suffer a collapse of its moral authority over the lay people in the United States. This has been attributed to the actions of Church elites, who intentionally created structures of dissent to keep people inv…
In this dissertation I purpose to identify key indicators of contemporary secularization discovered through literary resources documenting the rise of secularism in Western culture from the Middle Ages to the present day. After identifying these key cultural markers of seculariz…
The pipe organ, a musical instrument historically, culturally, and conceptually associated with Christian worship, is being negatively affected in terms of condition and continued use in the United States by rising rates of secularity, declining mainline Protestant and Catholic …
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…
"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…
"This book presents an interpretive, macro-historical and sociological account of martyrdom. Moving away from the notion of martyrdom as an object of individual behaviour and seeing it instead as a significant cultural work performed by communities in the wake of a violent death…
"This book presents an interpretive, macro-historical and sociological account of martyrdom. Moving away from the notion of martyrdom as an object of individual behaviour and seeing it instead as a significant cultural work performed by communities in the wake of a violent death…
"This book presents an interpretive, macro-historical and sociological account of martyrdom. Moving away from the notion of martyrdom as an object of individual behaviour and seeing it instead as a significant cultural work performed by communities in the wake of a violent death…