“…They can help us to cope with physical or existential suffering, and, ultimately put us in touch with the sacred--in either its secular or religious form--which protects what we must not destroy. …”

“…By isolating one factor among the many forces that converge in war-the essential tenets of Christian theology-Philippe Buc locates continuities in major episodes of violence perpetrated over the course of two millennia. Even in secularized or explicitly non-Christian societies, such as the Soviet Union of the Stalinist purges, social and political projects are tied to religious violence, and religious conceptual structures have influenced the ways violence is imagined, inhibited, perceived, and perpetrated. …”

“…However, the liturgical content of such texts is fundamentally religious and static, and does not incorporate dedications or references to contemporary secular or spiritual figures or events (the latter kinds of hymns, songs and appeals are edited as Benedictions in the Ecclesiastical volume)…”

“…As described in the Epilogue, this conflict ultimately gave way to a more collaborative settlement under Theodosius I, requiring the Emperor to construct his legitimacy not as a privileged agent within a fixed cosmic order, but as a holder of essentially temporary, "secular" power within the structures and rituals of the Christian Church"--…”

“…To do otherwise, he writes, is to present a seriously distorted picture of society and indirectly to be other than neutral in presenting secularism and religion. Written with exemplary clarity and even-handedness, this is a major book about some of the most pressing and contentious issues in educational policy and constitutional law today…”
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“…OISCA's postwar origins at the intersection of Shinto, secularism, and rightwing politics, and its vision of inter-Asian solidarity and a sustainable future helped shape the organization's ideology and activities. …”

“…An active participant in the Arab Spring, and himself a product of the Moroccan democratic and secular Left, Youssef Belal shows, through religious sociology which takes into account practical forms of mobilisation, that Islam is not incompatible with democracy. …”

“…Secondly, it embeds its object of study within an environment that was shaped by secularization and the politicization of the religious…”

“…Over the following centuries, the new features introduced via new Lutheran hymns such as accentual metres, end-rhymes and strophic structures were infusing into oral folk poetry, although this took place also via secular oral and literary routes. On the other hand, seventeenth-century scholars cultivated a new academic interest in what they understood as "ancient Finnish poetry". …”

“…Siempre se preocupó por distinguir entre planteamientos seculares genuinos, que han permitido ahondar en lo que es esencial en el Cristianismo, purificándolo de lo accesorio, y el secularismo que intenta expulsar a Dios de las cuestiones mundanas. …”

“…En este ensayo histórico se demuestra que las iglesias, en sus múltiples variantes, han sido barridas por corrientes seculares en conflicto, aunque también ellas mismas han contribuido a ese fenómeno. …”

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“…Less concerned about secularization, the pope wanted to promote a paradigm shift in which christology and ecclesiology must find their place. …”

“…La democracia, que pasó de ser un valor reivindicado por una minoría social a una exigencia compartida por amplios sectores, implicaba otra relación con una Iglesia que aceptara la cultura secular y renunciara a su concepción totalizadora de la sociedad…”

“…The results of scientific dating, and the analysis of bioarchaeological data, are applied to reconstruct the lived experience of the monastic community during the Viking Age, and to chart the complex settlement transformations during Lyminge's afterlife as a secular minster church and seat of archiepiscopal authority. …”

“…This book describes the transformation in American finance from the old reputational model to the existing laissez faire model and argues that the change came as a result of three factors: (1) the growth of reliance on regulation rather than reputation as the primary mechanism for protecting customers and (2) the increasing complexity of regulation, which made technical expertise rather than reputation the primary criterion on which customers choose who to do business with in today's markets ; and (3) the rise of the 'cult of personality' on Wall Street, which has led to a secular demise in the relevance of companies' reputations and the concomitant rise of individual 'rain-makers' reputation as the basis for premium pricing of financial services. …”