L’histoire sociale de la religion au XIXe siècle : la sécularisation en question by Julien Vincent

“…The study of Victorian religion has been dominated in recent years by an all-round critique of the “secularization thesis” promoted by social historians in the 1960s and 1970s. Studies of institutional religion, of the religious consequences of modernity, or of the Victorian crisis of faith, have recast the traditional concept of secularization. …”
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Institutionalized Hypocrisy by Jacek Kurczewski

“… This paper draws on analysis by social historians ranging from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance in France to recent administrative history in Poland to illustrate basic contradictions in Western thought about sexuality. …”
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La pluralité du passé by Sabina Loriga

“…It was soon resumed by numerous social historians, who were traditionally more interested to the collective dimension of the historic experience. …”
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