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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Aberdeen University, 1989. / Title from web page (viewed on Mar. 4, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis advisor: Ali Banuazizi / The purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate the explicit societal and underlying political consequences of heavy-handed state measures to cultivate secularism and Islamism in Turkey and Iran respectively. The elites in each country have failed to indoctrinate the majority of the youth, who seek to change the status quo. A brief historical review of each country is provided in order to properly understand their sociopolitical environments. In Turkey, the majority of the educated youth demand the right to exercise their religious rights, including veiling in public spaces. In Iran, on the other hand, the young people refuse to abide by the various rules and government-imposed obligations. In both countries the boundaries between what is a private decision and public obligation is ever shifting. The youth, comprising the largest segment of its population in both countries, possess with enormous power and potential. The elitist status quo, whether supported by Kemalists in Turkey or Islamists in Iran, must ultimately bend to the will of the youth. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: International Studies Honors Program. / Discipline: International Studies.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 682-715).

Note: / The following pages represent an attempt at what I might call, with some hesitation, 'applied theology'. In them I endeavour to describe the development during a specific period of European history, of a phenomenon which has been, especially in the last fifteen years or so, a topic of intense theological discussion. That phenomenon is secularism. Now, the concept 'secularism', as it is understood nowadays, played no part in the theological discussions of the years we shall consider. The closest term was 'atheism', which we, from our perspective, in consideration of the secular theism of the French Revolution, for example, can see to have a rather different meaning. What I attempt to do here, then, is to write, not quite an essay in historical theology, since there is no theology of secularism in the period at issue; nor quite an essay in Church history, since, in a secularized society, the Church appears merely as one social institution amongst others; but an historical essay on the development of certain social attitudes which to-day pose a genuine theological problem.[...]

The history of the concept of secularisation is traced from its use as an anti-religious ideological term, through the modifications and refinements of classical sociology, to its association with modernisation in recent theory. Particular attention is given to the works of Bryan Wilson, Peter Berger and David Martin. The historical and sociological evidence which calls into question the classic theory of secularisation is cited and both the persistence of religion and the growth of new quests for the transcendent are shown to increase the pressure for a new paradigm for the understanding of the place of religion in the modern world. While British Evangelicalism's post-Victorian decline could be cited as evidence in support of the strong secularlisation thesis, its recent resurgence may point to religion's persistence in the modern world. The rise and fall of Evangelicalism is outlined, from its emergence in the eighteenth-century Revival, through its growing identification with middle-class culture in the Victorian era, to its reduction to the level of a religious sub-culture by the first half of the present century. Particular attention is given to the 'varieties of evangelicalism' and it is noted that, in contrast to those who attempted to use the belief-system as an ideological support for the defence of hierarchical society, radical Evangelicals insisted that religion must lead to historical and social transformation. The resurgence of conservative Christianity since the mid-point of the twentieth-century is described and analysed and a variety of possible futures for the revived Evangelical movement are suggested. Finally, the implications of the history of modern Evangelicalism for secularisation theory are outlined and it is argued that the time is ripe for an attempt to bridge the ideological gulf concerning religion which dates from the European Enlightenment.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (B. Div.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, 1969. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-50).

Diss.--Bonn, 1950.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1965. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Bibliography: l. 123-128.