... demise by reference to the continuing process of secularization. In contrast, it focuses on the religious self-understanding of the Labor Church. It begins by explaining the rise of the movement by reference to the immanentist theology with which so many Victorians and Edwardians responded to the crisis...

...This chapter studies the secularization of the university. The university, like the culture it influences and is influenced by, has become a secular institution, a center of clashing ideas, enormous dangers, and fantastic possibilities. Its dechristianization is not yet complete...

... with the secularization of Judeo-Christian legacies, this chapter questions the notion of psychoanalysis as the purview of any singular civilization. It asks what it might might mean to rethink the secular ends of analysis and open ourselves up to an ethical encounter with the Other. ethics intersubjectivity Islam...

... trends and ideological frames in this reception to which Klausner was heir. It then turns to Klausner's own intellectual biography, focusing in particular on his conflicted feelings over the course a secularization of Hebrew culture should take. Finally, the chapter studies the shadow cast on Klausner's...

...” secularization turned out to be comparatively impotent in subverting popular Christian belief and practice. Bruce Steve secularization Catholic Church France Union of Soviet Socialist Republics USSR Orthodox Church anticlericalism Pius X Benedict XV Pius XI Boulard Fernand Le Bras Gabriel Paul VI...

...This introductory chapter discusses how the globalizing world proved a tough environment for secularism but less so for border-hopping religions, which promised salvation in another life. The coming of this brave new world has prompted scholars to call into question once confident secularization...

...This chapter reveals that even secular-minded thinkers like Max Weber and Jürgen Habermas were or are now sensitive to such claims discussed in the previous chapter. Weber understood secularization as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but he was aware that modernization came at a price...

...For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. This book brings together many of today's leading...

...This chapter examines how the atheist apparatus mobilized the social sciences in order to map patterns of Soviet secularization and understand religious modernization. It first considers the revival of the social sciences and social scientists' role in ideological work before discussing...

...This chapter examines how socialist rituals became the Soviet state's main ideological weapon in the battle against religion. It first considers the Bolsheviks' secularization of Soviet life after the revolution, using ZAGS (Bureau for the Registration of Acts of Civil Status) as a tool, by taking...

...This chapter begins by briefly reviewing the two standard approaches to religion often regarded as the most widely discussed alternative perspectives on the relationship between religion and society: secularization theory and rational choice theory. It then discusses how practice theory...

...This introductory chapter discusses how the Catholic response to the secularization of the divine seldom restored the fine medieval balance between philosophy and theology. On the contrary, whenever skeptical or fideistic arguments were invoked to undermine the faith in unaided reason, the medieval...

...This chapter discusses the three basic alterations on work that urbanization and secularization produce. First, they separate the place of work from the place of residence; second, they transform work more and more into bureaucratic patterns of organization; and third, they emancipate work from...

... convictions as something increasingly set apart from broader English culture, thereby hastening the secularization they seek to counter. The book offers a unique look at how Christian politico-legal activism in England simultaneously responds to and constitutes the religious life of a nation....

...This introductory chapter provides a background of secularization, an epochal movement that marks a change in the way men grasp and understand their life together. Secularization is the loosening of the world from religious and quasi-religious understandings of itself, the dispelling of all closed...

...This chapter studies the biblical sources of secularization, showing how three pivotal elements in the biblical faith have each given rise to one aspect of secularization. The disenchantment of nature begins with the Creation; the desacralization of politics...

...This chapter illustrates the rich variety of the secularization process, looking at four cities representing four distinctive regions. These cities include New Delhi, Rome, Prague, and Boston. They represent the march of secularization and urbanization in, respectively, Southeast Asia, Western...

...This chapter shows how the humanization of sex is impeded. First, it is thwarted by the parading of cultural-identity images for the sexually dispossessed, to make money. These images become the tyrant gods of the secular society, undercutting its liberation from religion and transforming...

...This chapter discusses secularism as a political project with its own utopian elements. Secularism refers to the growing importance of scientific knowledge that is not constrained by religious authority. Religion is sometimes taken to be an obstacle for scientific progress and secularism demands...

... Tommaso Freud Sigmund Fromm Erich The Dogma of Christ Schevill Ferdinand First Council of Nicaea security semantics secularization securitas The term securitas is not explicitly employed as a political or philosophical concept in any sustained manner before the fourteenth...