Essays about: "secularization"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 20 essays containing the word secularization.

  1. 11. Paradise Overcome A Secular Interpretation of Paradise Lost

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Pauliina Arvidsson; [2014-02-07]
    Keywords : engelska; John Milton; Paradise Lost; epic poetry; secularization; secular humanism; liberal humanism;

    Abstract : P.B. Shelley wrote that John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost “contains within itself a philosophical refutation of that system of which, by a strange and natural antithesis, it has been a chief popular support” (394). READ MORE

  3. 12. Religious nationalism: Myanmar and the role of Buddhism in anti-Muslim narratives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik

    Author : Emilie Biver; [2014]
    Keywords : nationalism; Buddhism; Myanmar; Rohingya; narrative; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In contrast to the Western ideal of secularization, religion has in some cultures maintained its important role in nationalist undertakings. This is the case in Myanmar, a country that is currently in the midst of a state transformation towards democracy after more than fifty years of authoritarian, military rule. READ MORE

  4. 13. Viktor Lennstrand and Sweden's Secularization

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för samhälls- och kulturvetenskap

    Author : Ronald Petrarca; [2014]
    Keywords : Lennstrand; Atheism; Secularization; Lennstrand; ateism; sekularisering;

    Abstract : Viktor Lennstrand was the first person in Sweden to establish an organization completely devoted to atheist activism: Utilistiska samfundet. This in itself makes him an important figure in Swedish history; however, he is also significant in another way. READ MORE

  5. 14. "It's not really about alcohol, you know"

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialantropologi

    Author : Mette Ostenfeldt Fallesen; [2014]
    Keywords : Islam; alcohol consumption; secularism; Turkey; national identity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This paper is about the role that alcohol consumption plays in the (re)definition of Turkishness at a time where the secular foundations of the country are being challenged by the religious-conservative Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi (AKP). We see how alcohol consumption shed its marginal position in the middle of the 19th century, being elevated to the status of drink of the elites, how this in turn shaped the lifestyles of those growing up in the urban centers throughout the next century and a half, the native secularists, and how it is perhaps again on the way to a marginal position in the Turkish society. READ MORE

  6. 15. Purmo församling : en del av bygemenskapen

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Isabella Lund; [2012]
    Keywords : Community; religion; församlingsliv; Österbotten;

    Abstract : Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka huruvida den kyrkliga församlingsverksamheten kan påvisas bidra till att stärka bygemenskapen. Mitt antagande är att det finns ett samband mellan stor församlingsaktivitet och stark gemenskapskänsla. READ MORE