Books written by Walter Van Herck
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Radical Secularization?: An Inquiry Into the Religious Roots of Secular Culture
What does it mean for a society to be secular? Answering this question from a philosophical angle, Radical Secularization? delves into the philosophical presuppositions of secularization.
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Radical Secularization?: An Inquiry into the Religious Roots of Secular Culture
Atheism in Christianity: The Religion of the Exodus and the Kingdom. Translated by J. T. Swann. New York: Verso. Blumenberg, H. 1983. ... 2013. Adoration: The Deconstruction of Christianity II. Translated To World or not to World 229.
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Religious Emotions: Some Philosophical Explorations
Renaissance writers who theorised about religion and emotion were interested in Thomas Aquinas' processing of Aristotelian ideas ... As physical phenomena emotions were a matter of sensation of stimulus or activity in the body.
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Secularism, Religion, and Politics: India and Europe
This book highlights the relationship between the state and religion in India and Europe. It problematizes the idea of secularism and questions received ideas about secularism.
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The Sacred in the City
In a more explicit manner, Jon Pahl states: 'Shopping malls, like other sacred places, use a common formula to produce enchanting effects among pilgrims' (Pahl, 2005). This is exemplified by the common design of shopping malls.
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Radical Secularization?: An Inquiry into the Religious Roots of Secular Culture
What does it mean for a society to be secular? Answering this question from a philosophical angle, Radical Secularization? delves into the philosophical presuppositions of secularization.
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Humour and Religion: Challenges and Ambiguities
... Lachen und Humor in der jüdischen Tradition', Tribüne: Zeitschrift zum Verständnis des Judentums, 126, 179–187. Hoste ... Auf ein Lächeln: Von der Heiterkeit des Herzens und vom Humor des Glaubens, Bern: Blaukreuz. Thiede, W. (1986), Das ...