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Sawsan Kheir
Bio: Sawsan Kheir is an academic researcher from Åbo Akademi University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Secularism & Ethnic group. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 10 citations.
Topics: Secularism, Ethnic group, Sociology, Socialization, Scholarship
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on religious socialization among young adults within two weeks of high school graduation and found that religion is particularly important among minority groups (e.g., Pargament 2002).
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TL;DR: The authors explored how young adult religious minority students in Israel, Muslims and Druze, integrate their religious worldviews within modernity, separately for each group and comparatively for both, with special attention to their conflictual position as minorities.
Abstract: Scholarship on the hybrid and interrelated nature of religion and secularism among religious minorities is still scarce. This study explores how young adult religious minority students in Israel, Muslims and Druze, integrate their religious worldviews within modernity, separately for each group and comparatively for both, with special attention to their conflictual position as minorities. The research data were collected as part of a mixed-methods research project—Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (YARG), which used the Faith Q-Sort method (version b)—and through semi-structured interviews. The findings reflect the multiple ways in which modernization processes can shape the religious worldviews of minority students and confirm previous findings on the multifaceted manifestations of religiosity and secularization. Furthermore, the study highlights the indirect manner through which the position of “religious/ ethnic minority” might promote secularization.
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TL;DR: In the last chapter it became clear that there were many scandals in the clerical estate, but that the clergy were by no means so black as they have sometimes been painted as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Many years ago a contributor to the Dublin Review wrote about the XV century: “ This epoch was an eclipse—a very Egyptian darkness; worse than Chaos or Erebus—black as the thick preternatural night under which Our Lord was crucified ”.I Had this statement been true it would have been easy to account for the Reformation. It is false, and the Reformation has still to be explained. In the last chapter it became clear that there were many scandals in the clerical estate, but that the clergy were by no means so black as they have sometimes been painted. In this chapter it should become clear how, in spite of wickedness and superstition, there was a popular religion—real, sincere and active. There have never been any good old times; but in reviewing the past it is possible to overestimate our superior enlightenment.
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TL;DR: The concept of religious socialization remains a widely used concept amongst scholars who direct attention to the social patterns that underline the formation of religious attitudes as discussed by the authors. But, as discussed in this paper, it is not a suitable approach for the study of the social formation of attitudes.
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