Because of their affordability and their wide circulation through lending libraries the gothic chapbooks' role "in defining the transformations of the gothic uncanny" (197) from the supernatural, transcendent into a
secularized uncanny is of special interest to Hoeveler.
Secularized society is largely individualistic, narcissistic and self-sufficient.
A third sign of the new
secularized age reflects the Enlightenment ideal of critical reason and open inquiry.
They got separate
secularized states courtesy of Mustafa Kemal and the Arab provinces passed into another occupation that further fragmented what had remained of the unity once fostered by the Ottoman umbrella.
"We've emasculated and
secularized many feasts by transferring them to restaurants, where debts are not entered into a social and political order but are paid off with a credit card," Wilson asserts.
In it, a young unemployed worker finds communist ideology unsatisfactory, rejects the notion of social rather than individual value, and reaches a better understanding of himself and the world through a
secularized Lutheran theology in which people are judged according to their deeds.
The brewery was eventually
secularized and taken over by the state, and now operates as a commercial venture.
In them, he weaves a delicately ironic web of both Christian and pagan elements, by which he implies his own preference for a
secularized view of religion, an idea that reflects the strong influence of Feuerbach.
Not everyone may agree with Clink Hagedorn about how deeply embedded Christian culture has been into the Filipino soul; but it has been a distinctive trait, even today, where Filipinos living and working abroad are more likely to fill the churches on Saturday evening or Sunday (compared to the locals in the area, who may have become so
secularized that they no longer show much appreciation for their Christian heritage).
Among the topics are the tragedy of his Lancelot and Guinevere, endless virtue and Trinitarian prayer in Lancelot's healing of Urry,
secularized salvation, and what Malory can offer non-religious readers.
"As a result, millions of Iranians--the sons and daughters of once faithful revolutionaries--have
secularized. Whereas secularizing Westernized autocracies like the Shah's prompted upwellings of religious radicalism, Iran's religious dictatorship has produced a softening secularization that is likely to last, since both non-religious and faithful Iranians increasingly see representative government as indispensable to their values."
"Priestly celibacy is a precious gift of Christ to his church, a gift that must continually be meditated upon and strengthened, especially in the deeply
secularized modern world," Hummes said in a full-page article he wrote for the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, Feb.
