Communist anniversaries as a symphony of power and science (case study of Bulgaria) by Ewelina Drzewiecka

“…The discussion offers an interpretation in the light of the Orthodox concept of the symphony of power perceived as a metaphor of the relation between the secular and the spiritual power.…”
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Making It Count: Pilgrimage and the Enumeration of Publics by Simon Coleman

“…Such “biopolitics of hosting” can play a significant role in mobilising the religious imagination of shrine administrators, especially in contexts of apparently growing secularity. Number can be deployed by professional hosts to represent undifferentiated visiting publics in terms of spiritual possibility. …”
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Penser dans l’au-delà de l’islamisme by Patrick Haenni, Husam Tammam

“…These new discourses are related to the history of political Islam, but they are also probably leading their authors toward a secularized imaginary.…”
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ASPECTS OF THE VOCAL-SYMPHONIC GENRE by Lucian GHIŞA

“…The oratorio is divided in two categories according to the text: the secular and religious oratorio. The religious oratorio has several subgenres given by the use of a pre-established text: Requiem, Mass, Passion, Te Deum, Stabat Mater, and others. …”
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The Popes and the Idea of European Unity by Emília Hrabovec

“…John Paul II relaunched a new evangelisation instead of compromises with secularism and Marxism, but maintained a fundamental European optimism, whereas Benedict XVI did not hesitate to admit that the European culture, transformed into a laicist utopia which substitutes God by the obstinate self-will of man, could disappear, too. …”
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A estreita aliança entre os bispos e o Santo Ofício em Cabo Verde (1538-1646) by Matilde Mendonça dos Santos

“…Analisar-se-á, igualmente, a ligação do Santo Ofício com os outros organismos de poder, quer eclesiásticos quer seculares. Por fim, abordar-se-á ainda o impacto da acção inquisitorial no arquipélago. …”
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Languages of Written and Oral Communication between Russian Emperors and Electors of the Holy Roman Empire, 1725–1799 by M. A. Petrova

“…For example, Russian emperors addressed secular electors not as "brothers" or "sisters"—terms typically reserved for sovereign equals— but as "uncles," "aunts," or, later, "in-laws" (occasionally "cousins"). …”
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Authors of Lithuanian books in the first part of 19th century by Aušra Navickienė

“…The first authors with secular higher education appeared in the 3rd-4th decades of the 19th century. …”
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On Political Islam in Palestine by E. A. Stepkin

“…Also one should keep in mind secular beliefs of the current political elite in Palestine. …”
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Imigrantes espanhóis e poloneses como agentes de relações transnacionais entre a Europa e o sul do Brasil by Regina Weber

“…Knowledge, cultural representations and political ideas circulated throughout Europe and America, with the mediation of agents, whether these linked to professional practices or those who acted as “ethnic intellectuals”, secular or religious, interested in maintaining an origin identity of the groups which they propose to represent.…”
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Over Accumulation or Investment Gap? by Kersten Kellermann, Carsten-Henning Schlag

“…The marginal productivity of private and public capital has not been following the secular decline in the interest rate. This leaves room for an increase in debt-financed public investment. …”
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Les places traditionnelles de Porto-Novo (Bénin) comme communs : entre mise en valeur des espaces urbains et promotion des pratiques sociales et culturelles by Elizabeth Auclair, Élise Garcia

“…They illustrate a complex combination between opposite dimensions such as material/immaterial, sacred/secular, public/private, visible/invisible. This article examines the perceptions and representations of the inhabitants, the dynamics induced by the rehabilitation of the traditional places and the involvement of local artists. …”
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L’islam dans l’école : une frontière invisible ? by Samia Langar

“…More generally, these dividing lines undermine and re-interrogate secularism itself and the universal it claims to be.…”
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Stato civile e cultura politica islamica. Una riflessione antropologica by Domenico Copertino

“…Starting from the debate between Clifford Geertz, Talal Asad and Ernest Gellner on religious traditions, ethos and power, the article offers a reflection on the political-intellectual dynamics that have led some Islamic and secular movements in the Middle East to formulate a project of social/institutional organization called the civil state. …”
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Modernidades religiosas latinoamericanas. Un renovado debate epistemológico y conceptual by Fortunato Mallimaci

“…This demands new categories to redefine concepts such as secularisation and secularity, and to reinterpret the narrow relations built in the continent between politics, culture, body, the economic aspect and the symbolic one, and the State above all.…”
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The constant reality beyond exception and rule in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology by K. Radler

“…As a result, Bonhoeffer responds to a secular method with faith in Christ’s cross and provides for a reality that can serve as a constant grounding for a new life carried by ultimate hope. …”
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«The Muslim Brotherhood» and prospects of the political process in contemporary Egypt by M. Z. Razhbadinov

“…The future situation in the country will depend on the relationship «The Muslim Brotherhood» with the army and political secular powers. The country has just started to move in the way that Turkey did a few decades ago…”
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Quelques cas de séparation pour adultère masculin entre xvie et xviie siècles : arguments et enjeux by Claire Chatelain, Raphaëlle Lapôtre, Camille Noûs

“…Based on case studies centered on couples' requests for separation by the judicial means of male adultery or cohabitation in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, this article compares two types of competent jurisdictions for this charge, one secular and royal, the other ecclesiastical ; and two types of procedures, one accusatory and the other inquisitorial. …”
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Subversión y mímesis en el mundo evangélico. Exploraciones sobre las minorías religiosas ascendentes en Argentina by Joaquín Algranti

“…In the conclusion we will pose the question related to the condition of possibility of secularism in this context.…”
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Contribution de la philosophie de Nicolas Grimaldi à la réflexion éducative by Yoann Daumet

“…It was part of a humanistic faith and seems to have been swept away by the criticism of this humanism by the human sciences to the point that founding a secular spirituality of the school may seem today a challenge. …”
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