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Carl Schmitt: secularization and political theology University of Antwerp
Inclusion ideals and inclusion problems: Parsons and Luhmann on religion and secularization Ghent University
Talcott Parsons and the enigma of secularization Ghent University
Secularization and the Modern History of Funerary Culture in Europe : Conflict and Market Competition Around Death, Burial and Cremation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article connects the history of attitudes toward death and funerary practices in 19th- and 20th-century Europe to the ongoing discussion on secularization. It emphasizes how recent scholarship on the history of death ‐ following broader trends within religious studies ‐ has abandoned the standard modernization-narrative of secularization, and moved to view the issue through the prism of conflict and market competition. Depending on the ...
Secularization of urban graveyards in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This contribution analyzes the secularization of Belgian graveyards in the 19th century.
Secularization: History of the Concept KU Leuven
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This article focuses on the historical evolution of the concept of 'secularization' in sociology and philosophy. It does not include a description of political systems and their approach to religion and secularity. The authors dwell on the classic secularization thesis and explain how this thesis was questioned in sociology and philosophy alike. The secularization debate nowadays counts many participants ...
Rethinking secularization: philosophy and the prophecy of a secular age University of Antwerp
A Secularization of Cultural Politics? Changing Patterns of Cultural-Political Polarization and Voting Behavior in Western Europe, 1981-2017 KU Leuven
This project studies transformations of cultural politics in Western Europe in the last four decades. Whereas the 'new' cultural cleavage is typically viewed as pitting broadly culturally conservative individuals against their broadly culturally progressive counterparts, this thesis suggests that there are two types of cultural value dimensions lumped together, one religious and one secular. The religious value dimension is moral ...