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Wood-Legh, K. L. Studies in church life in England under Edward III. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010.

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Uta, Karstein, and Schmidt-Lux Thomas, eds. Forcierte Säkularität: Religiöser Wandel und Generationendynamik im Osten Deutschlands. Frankfurt ; New York: Campus Verlag, 2009.

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Jenseits der Säkularisierung: Religionsphilosophische Studien. Berlin: Parerga, 2008.

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Nagl-Docekal, Herta. Jenseits der Säkularisierung: Religionsphilosophische Studien. Berlin: Parerga, 2008.

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Pollack, Detlef. Säkularisierung, ein moderner Mythos?: Studien zum religiösen Wandel in Deutschland. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

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Eikenbusch, Jürgen. Unsichtbares Christentum?: Studien zu religionssoziologischen und theologischen Bewältigungsstrategien der Entkirchlichungserfahrung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hamburg: Kovač, 2001.

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Percy, Martyn. The Salt of the Earth: Religious Resilience in a Secular Age (Lincoln Studies in Religion & Society). Sheffield, 2002.

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Quack, Johannes, and Cora Schuh. Religious Indifference: New Perspectives From Studies on Secularization and Nonreligion. Springer, 2018.

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1961-, Boer Roland, ed. Secularism and biblical studies. London: Equinox Pub. Ltd, 2008.

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1961-, Boer Roland, ed. Secularism and biblical studies. London: Equinox Pub. Ltd, 2008.

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Secularization: The Inherited Models Revisited (Studies in European Thought, Vol. 21). Peter Lang Publishing, 2007.

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Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics). Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Inglehart, Ronald, and Pippa Norris. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics). Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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Humanism and Secularization: From Petrarch to Valla (Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies). Duke University Press, 2002.

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Freeman, E., and T. D. Hemming. The Secular City: Studies in the Enlightenment. University of Exeter Press, 1995.

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Religion and the Demographic Revolution Studies in Modern British Religious History. Boydell Press, 2012.

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Religion, Secularization and Social Change: Congregational Studies in a Post-Christian Society (University of Wales Press - Politics and Society in Wales). University of Wales Press, 2005.

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Guesnet, François, Antony Polonsky, Ada Rapoport-Albert, and Marcin Wodzinski, eds. Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 33. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764753.001.0001.

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Following tremendous advances in recent years in the study of religious belief, this volume adopts a fresh understanding of Jewish religious life in Poland. Approaches deriving from the anthropology, history, phenomenology, psychology, and sociology of religion have replaced the methodologies of social or political history that were applied in the past, offering fascinating new perspectives. The well-established interest in Hasidism continues, albeit from new angles, but topics that have barely been considered before are well represented here too. Women’s religious practice gains new prominence, and a focus on elites has given way to a consideration of the beliefs and practices of ordinary people. Reappraisals of religious responses to secularization and modernity, both liberal and Orthodox, offer more nuanced insights into this key issue. Other research areas represented here include the material history of Jewish religious life in eastern Europe and the shift of emphasis from theology to praxis in the search for the defining quality of religious experience. The contemporary reassessments in this volume, with their awareness of emerging techniques that have the potential to extract fresh insights from source materials both old and new, show how our understanding of what it means to be Jewish is continuing to expand.
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Quack, Johannes. Identifying (with) the Secular. Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.013.2.

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This chapter discusses two academic strands with respect to scholarly attempts to identify the secular. Based on a review of criticism brought forward against the classical secularization thesis, it outlines, on one hand, what consequences have been drawn by descriptive and explanatory social scientists and how they apply notions such as secularity, secularism, and secularization today, and, on the other, examines the conceptual histories as well as distinct genealogical studies of “the secular” to explore the ways in which attempts to identify the secular may also imply an identification with or against the secular. Here, recent arguments concerning the importance of researching how worldview secularism and political secularism are both to be differentiated as well as historically intertwined are taken up. Finally, the chapter attempts to determine whether and how both academic strands can be brought together in research on the heterogeneity of religious–secular entanglements in the contemporary world.
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Bader, Veit. Secularisms or Liberal-Democratic Constitutionalism? Edited by Phil Zuckerman and John R. Shook. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199988457.013.21.

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This chapter begins with the concepts “secular,” “secularity,” “secularization,” and “secularism” and summarizes core results of social science studies into the changing role of religions in contemporary societies, Then it discusses problems with the construction of models of the governance of religious diversity in the social sciences and presents some empirically grounded normative models of relations between (organized) religions and societies, cultures, politics, law, and the state in order to draw some normative lessons. The chapter provides a critical discussion of first- and second-order normative principles that should govern the these relations. For rich empirical descriptions and explanations in the social sciences, grand narratives or umbrella concepts such as secularization, secularism, and postsecularism fail to capture different complexities, configurations, and trade-offs. The different meanings of “the principle of secularism” are discussed and a proposal to replace them by rights and principles of liberal-democratic constitutionalism offered.
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Pollack, Detlef, and Gergely Rosta. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801665.003.0015.

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Opponents of secularization theory often emphasize that what can be said about religion in Europe cannot be applied to other regions of the world. They regularly refer to non-European countries where processes of modernization and religious revitalization have gone hand in hand. Therefore, to determine the role of religion in the modern world and the reasons for its changes means dealing with non-European societies. This short introductory chapter to Part IV explains the selection of the three case studies to be discussed in more detail in the chapters that follow: the US, South Korea, and the Pentecostal movement.
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Hepburn, Allan. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828570.003.0001.

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In the 1940s and 1950s, Britain was relatively uniform in terms of race and religion. The majority of Britons adhered to the Church of England, although Anglo-Catholic leanings—the last gasp of the Oxford Movement—prompted some people to convert to Roman Catholicism. Although the secularization thesis has had a tenacious grip on twentieth-century literary studies, it does not account for the flare-up of interest in religion in mid-century Britain. The ecumenical movement, which began in the 1930s in Europe, went into suspension during the war, and returned with vigour after 1945, advocated international collaboration among Christian denominations and consequently overlapped with the promotion of human rights, especially the defence of freedom of worship, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, and freedom of expression.
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Bain-Selbo, Eric, and D. Gregory Sapp. Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474205771.

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Readers are introduced to a range of theoretical and methodological approaches used to understand religion – including sociology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology – and how they can be used to understand sport as a religious phenomenon. Topics include the formation of powerful communities among fans and the religious experience of the fan, myth, symbols and rituals and the sacrality of sport, and sport and secularization. Case studies are taken from around the world and include the Olympics (ancient and modern), football in the UK, the All Blacks and New Zealand national identity, college football in the American South, and gymnastics. [new paragraph] Ideal for classroom use, Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon illuminates the nature of religion through sports phenomena and is a much-needed contribution to the field of religion and popular culture.
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McMahan, David L., and Erik Braun. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495794.003.0001.

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Meditation and mindfulness practices derived from Buddhism have become pervasive in secular settings outside Buddhist contexts. This rather sudden turn in the long history of Buddhist meditation has been undergirded by the scientific study of contemplative practices, which has given them greater currency outside of Buddhism and has popularized them across the globe. This chapter discusses some of the recent history of the transformations of meditation, in order to highlight how practice has changed over time and in different settings, thereby shedding light on the distinctiveness of its conceptualization in scientific terms. The authors note meditation’s formulation as an objective process of cognition, its secularization in the context of psychotherapy, the turn to neuroscientific studies, and the recent promotion of practice as a near-panacea for the stresses and strains of modern life. They also note the recent backlash against some claims about meditation’s benefits.
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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. The Transformation of Intimacy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0003.

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In chapter 2 different voices and theories are in dialogue. First, by exploring and critiquing risk sociology through Beck’s notion of “reflexive modernization,” Strydom’s extension of Beck’s thesis, Giddens’s observation of the contradictions between experts, Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s “normal chaos of love,” and Giddens’s understanding of the transformation of intimacy within risk modernity, the chapter draws attention to the critical assumptions underlying this “new risk” position and how it can be strengthened and extended within media/cultural studies. Second, the chapter explores film reviewing and current film theory through scholar Linda Williams’s work on “cinema and the sex act,” emphasizing bodily performance and aesthetic form, and via literary scholar Raymond Williams’s understanding of naturalism, emotional realism, and the secularization of intimacy, especially in his notion of “structures of feeling.” The arrival of the underclass stranger in the real sex film Romance is considered in this context.
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1928-, Glaser Hubert, and Putz Hannelore, eds. Freising wird bairisch: Verwaltungsgeschichtliche und biographische Studien zur Wende von 1802. Regensburg: Schnell + Steiner, 2002.

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Bar-Levav, Avriel, and Uzi Rebhun, eds. Textual Transmission in Contemporary Jewish Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197516485.001.0001.

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Jewish culture places a great deal of emphasis on texts and their means of transmission. At various points in Jewish history, the primary mode of transmission has changed in response to political, geographical, technological, and cultural shifts. Contemporary textual transmission in Jewish culture has been influenced by secularization, the return to Hebrew and the emergence of modern Yiddish, and the new centers of Jewish life in the United States and in Israel, as well as by advancements in print technology and the invention of the Internet. Volume XXXI of Studies in Contemporary Jewry deals with various aspects of textual transmission in Jewish culture in the last two centuries. Essays in this volume examine old and new kinds of media and their meanings; new modes of transmission in fields such as Jewish music; and the struggle to continue transmitting texts under difficult political circumstances. Two essays analyze textual transmission in the works of giants of modern Jewish literature: S.Y. Agnon, in Hebrew, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, in Yiddish. Other essays discuss paratexts in the East, print cultures in the West, and the organization of knowledge in libraries and encyclopedias.
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Vanderputten, Steven. Dark Age Nunneries. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501715945.001.0001.

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The two-and-a-half centuries between 800 and 1050 are commonly viewed as a 'dark age' in the history of women's monasticism. Dark, in the sense that the realities of life in and around the cloister are difficult to access: the primary evidence is extremely fragmented; the context is ill-understood; and scholars’ findings are scattered across a multitude of case studies. But dark also in the sense that, according to the dominant academic narrative, women's monasticism suffered from the catastrophic disempowerment of its members, the progressive ‘secularization’ of its institutions, and - barring a few exceptions - the precipitous decline of intellectual and spiritual life. Based on a study of forty institutions in Lotharingia – a multi-lingual, politically and culturally diverse region in the heart of Western Europe – this book dismantles the common view of women religious in this period as the disempowered, at times even disinterested, witnesses to their own lives. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, it highlights their attempts - and those of the men and women sympathetic to their cause - to construct localized narratives of self, nurture beneficial relations with their environment, and remain involved in shaping the attitudes and behaviors of the laity.
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Schlarb, Damien B. Melville's Wisdom. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197585566.001.0001.

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This book explores the manner in which Herman Melville responds to the spiritual crisis of modernity by using the language of the biblical Old Testament wisdom books to moderate contemporary discourses on religion, skepticism, and literature. Melville’s work is an example of how romantic literature fills the interpretive lacuna left by contemporary theology. This book argues that attending to Melville’s engagement with the wisdom books (Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes) can help us understand a paradox at the heart of American modernity: the simultaneous displacement and affirmation of biblical language and religious culture. In wisdom, which addresses questions of theology, radical skepticism, and the nature of evil, Melville finds an ethos of critical inquiry that allows him to embrace the acumen of modern analytical techniques such as higher biblical criticism, while salvaging simultaneously the spiritual authority of biblical language. Wisdom for Melville constitutes both object and analytical framework in this balancing act. Melville’s Wisdom joins other works of postsecular literary studies in challenging its own discipline’s constitutive secularization narrative by rethinking modern, putatively secular cultural formations in terms of their reciprocity with religious concepts and texts. The book foregrounds Melville’s sustained, career-spanning concern with biblical wisdom, its formal properties, and its knowledge-creating potential. By excavating this project from Melville’s oeuvre, Melville’s Wisdom shows how he seeks to avoid the spiritually corrosive effects of suspicious reading while celebrating truth-seeking over subversive iniquity.
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Pollack, Detlef, and Gergely Rosta. Religion and Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801665.001.0001.

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This book focuses on two issues. First, it describes how the social significance of religion in its various facets has changed in modern societies. Second, it explains what factors and conditions have contributed to these changes. After discussing the two central concepts of the investigation, religion and modernity, the book presents the most important theories that deal with the relationship between the two. The empirical part, which constitutes the bulk of the book, begins by analysing religious change in selected countries in Western and Eastern Europe. For the sake of comparison, it then presents individual analyses of selected non-European cases (the US, South Korea), as well investigations of the global spread of Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism in Europe, the US, and in Brazil. On the basis of these selected case studies, which place as much emphasis on analysing the social, political, and economic contexts of religious changes as on capturing historical path dependencies, the book offers some general theoretical conclusions and identifies overarching patterns and determinants of religious change in modern and modernizing societies. In recent years, scholars of religion have become increasingly sceptical about the validity of secularization theory; the analyses contained in this book demonstrate, however, that tendencies of modernity such as functional differentiation, individualization, and pluralization are likely to inhibit the attractiveness and acceptance of religious affiliations, practices, and beliefs. Even Poland, Russia, the US, and South Korea, which have often been cited as prime examples of the vitality of religion in modern societies, display clear signs of religious decline.
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