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Europe: The Exceptional Case
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The Rise and Fall of Fuzzy Fidelity in Europe
TL;DR: The European Social Survey (ESS) as discussed by the authors showed that each generation in every country surveyed is less religious than the last, although there are some minor differences in the speed of the decline (the most religious countries are changing more quickly than the least religious), the magnitude of the fall in religiosity during the last century has been remarkably constant across the continent.
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Revisiting Religion: Development Studies Thirty Years On
Séverine Deneulin,Carole Rakodi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-assess the treatment of religion in development studies 30 years after the publication of a special issue of World Development on "Religion and Development" and identify two implications of this for development studies.
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The Religious Content of Ethnic Identities
TL;DR: This paper argued that in many contexts there is a two-way relationship between religion and ethnicity, rather than religion simply playing a supporting role to the ethnic centrepiece, and that identity conflicts and other social struggles may stimulate the return of the religious, once reactivated, the religious dimensions of identity may take on a logic of their own.
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Rethinking the interplay of feminism and secularism in a neo-secular age
TL;DR: The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the "clash of civilizations" thesis; the expansion of postmodern critiques of Enlightenment rationality to encompass questions of religion; and sustained critiques of the ‘secularization thesis'.
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Believing in belonging: an ethnography of young people’s constructions of belief
TL;DR: In this paper, a three-year case study suggests that how young people discuss their beliefs reflect where they define and locate legitimate sites of power, meaning, and authority in their lives.