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The Secular Paradox : On the Religiosity of the Not Religious /

"Secular people are strangely ambiguous. They feel a tension between what they don't share and what they have in common-between avoiding religion and embracing something like it. An event as ordinary as a wedding can be uncomfortable if it feels too religious, and even for those who are in...

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Autor principal: Blankholm, Joseph (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2022]
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505 0 0 |t Introduction: A strange ambivalence --  |t Belief --  |t Community --  |t Ritual --  |t Conversion --  |t Tradition --  |t Epilogue: The helmet of Mambrino. 
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