Do human rights really protect us? The evolution of the concept of human rights influenced by the work of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights by Max Silva Abbott

“…It argues that human rights have attained a status akin to a "secular religion," shaping the legitimacy of states globally. …”
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“Millions of false eyes / Are stuck upon thee.” The scope of surveillance in Measure for Measure by Sébastien Lefait

“…To this effect, I first relate the surveillance practices of Shakespeare’s time to some of the play’s prevalent thematic pairs: imprisonment and punishment, authority and the prerogatives of the ruler, divine rule and secular law. I then show that the Duke stands as a polymorphous vehicle of surveillance, his status being characterised by hypervision and overinformation, but also by a propensity to act as a stage producer. …”
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Religion and the Future of Nigeria: Lessons from the Yoruba Case by J.D.Y. Peel

“…He argues that the Yoruba are constantly pressed towards olaju (modernity/development/progress) which makes cross-cutting communal belonging more salient, thus ensuring that the Yoruba constantly mobilize both religious and secular insti­tutions and processes in the all-embracing project of olaju. …”
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Feminismo islámico, interseccionalidad y decolonialidad by Sara Salem

“…Si bien descentra la ontología liberal secular del feminismo occidental dominante y exige un análisis crítico de las estructuras globales que producen y reproducen las relaciones de desigualdad que afectan a las mujeres musulmanas, un enfoque interseccional decolonial puede llevar aún más lejos el campo en expansión del feminismo islámico.…”
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Éclairage sur le rôle des moines chartreux du Val-Saint-Esprit dans le démantèlement du château comtal de Gosnay (comté d’Artois, Pas-de-Calais) au début du xvie siècle by Mathieu Béghin

“…The various stages of this process, from the downgrading of the fortified place by the count of Artois, to the various actors of the dismantling and the building materials resale, have been found in administrative, accounting and notarial unpublished information sources, from ecclesiastical and secular spheres.…”
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La prise en compte du cheminement spirituel du jeune selon une perspective d’éducation relative à l’environnement : la problématique québécoise by Virginie Boelen

“…Despite the wish to consider the children’s spirituality in secular education, Quebec makes part of those countries in which there is a gap between theory and actual classroom practice. …”
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HEALTH AND POLITICS IN THE COVID-19 CRISIS FROM A NEW TESTAMENT HERMENEUTICAL PERSPECTIVE by P. Lampe

“…New Testament hermeneutics can contribute impulses to the global and crosscultural discourse about change regarding, for example, the perception of health and healing, the ethics of human kindness, the design and application of laws, the limits of freedom, the role of the notion of “God”, and the First Commandment in secular societies or the role of often absolutised principles such as maximisation of profit and efficiency. …”
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The covenant in Ulrich Huber's enlightened theology, jurisprudence and political theory by A. W. G. Raath, S. A. de Freitas

“…This takes place against the background of the more prominent insights  regarding the covenant in 16th and 17th century Western political thought, namely the idea of the Biblical covenant (with the emphasis on the conditional nature of God’s law), and the secular social contract theories stemming from the early Enlightenment. …”
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The unified body of Christ as Biblical metaphor for being church by Lourens Schoeman

“…The reality is that this church, like the secular community (locally, provincially, nationally, throughout Africa and globally) is divided into class, wealth and health categories. …”
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Ágapes urbanos. Una mirada sobre el vínculo entre música electrónica y communitas en la ciudad de Bogotá by María Angélica Ospina Martínez

“…A partir del concepto de communitas de Victor Turner y recogiendo algunas discusiones sobre el sentido del trance extático en los sectores seculares, la autora propone algunas vetas para el análisis de la dinámica de la construcción de identidades juveniles en el marco de la tensión entre solipsismo y colectivismo.…”
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Musawah Movement’s Activism for Women’s Rights as Strengthening the Trend of Islamic Feminism by Żaklina Dworska

“…The critical approach of Islamic feminism is to resist the abuse of religious interpretation to maintain patriarchal structures while rejecting Western and secularized understandings of human rights. Based on the context of this dispute, this article analyses source documents illustrating the activities of the equality movement, which seeks to achieve its statutory goals and reform Muslim family law. …”
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Mindset, Schism and the Contemporary Transformation of the Anglican Communion by Geoffrey A Sandy

“…However, it is something that is general and fundamental, which operates in society for both the religious and secular domains.…”
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Entre patrimoine et développement durable, quel avenir pour les églises paroissiales ? by Mélanie Meynier-Philip

“…Within the framework of a PhD in Architecture, the research tackles the future of the parochial churches of the Lyon Saint-Étienne urban area, in a context of accelerated secularization of Western societies. Faced with an increasing desertion – disappearance of parishioners and their religious use –their use value, linked to their potential of reconversion, as well as to their affective value, carried by a heritage community, allow them to have a future. …”
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Os físicos e a medicina da alma no Orto do Esposo by Marisa das Neves Henriques

“…Health is synoym of salvation, so there is no secular science that could stand such noble project.Christ, the caelestis medicus, and the holy Bible, are the protagonists of a soul’s medicine that Orto do Esposo prescribes in detail. …”
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El lugar de la Antropología audiovisual: metodología participativa y espacios profesionales by Juan Robles

“…La Antropología audiovisual conecta de modo directo con la esencia misma de la Antropología sociocultural,la cual pretende vincularse a la orientación pública, que se quiere teórica y aplicada, autorreferencialy compartida, que busca la superación de la parálisis metadiscursiva vinculada a la crisis representacional,desde la integración en el texto fílmico del encuentro intercultural y ante la necesidad de relegitimarse metodológicamentepara ocupar el espacio que le corresponde en los debates seculares en relación a las profundastransformaciones sociales en curso. …”
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Transformation in the Wisdom Books of the Hebrew Bible and its application to the context of Southern Africa by S. Fischer

“…Finally, the article proposes that a secular society should be an enabler of different religious traditions. …”
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So what are we really talking about? A Corpus Linguistic Analysis of Keywords and Collocations in the »Theologische Quartalsschrift« by Matthias Werner

“…The study enhances understanding of German Catholic Theology, providing transparency and objective insights in order to provide a clear explanation of Catholic Theology to outsiders, even in secularized contexts. To insiders, this approach enables the discovery of blind spots and fosters discourse in scientific theology by making discussions explicit. …”
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Where have all the bishops gone? by J. E. Wehrmeyer

“…The paper shows that the New Testament episkopo`~ functions as a term with meanings similar to its secular use in ancient times as well as its use in the Septuagint. …”
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The Imagination in the Life and Thought of John Henry Newman by Terrence Merrigan

“…Newman was convinced that all beliefs—religious, secular or political—must first be credible to the imagination and that the religious object is only adequately appropriated via an imaginative process that calls to mind the working of the literary imagination. …”
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Exhibiting the Exotic, Simulating the Sacred: Tibetan Shrines at British and American Museums by Imogen Clark

“…It explores the tension between “secular” and “religious” in shrine installations, and questions the relevance of these concepts for Tibetan material culture. …”
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