• However, the experience of seeing masses of nominally religious people read gospel tracts and fall on their knees in repentance might be less common than in days past. (thegospelcoalition.org)
  • Secularism, or non-discrimination between different religious groups, is thus an integral part of the vision of democracy. (thehindu.com)
  • As such, the public amplification of the azan, the call to prayer, offers a unique opportunity to understand what is at stake in debates over religious toleration and secularism. (bloomsbury.com)
  • As such, Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape is not merely the empirical study of a phenomenon that is relatively new to the Netherlands, but it is also a rich document that contributes to the study of secularism and religious pluralism in the Netherlands. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Written in a lucid, personal style, and drawing on insights from cultural anthropology, political philosophy, material religion studies, and art history, Pooyan Tamimi Arab offers a highly original, truly interdisciplinary contribution to our understanding of European secularism and religious aesthetics. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Our freedom fighters have given us a great Constitution so that people of different religious beliefs can live together peacefully. (enewsroom.in)
  • My research focuses on political secularism in Western Europe and its relation to the subordination of racial and religious minorities. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • A celibate pope in Rome declares that condoms do not discourage the spread of AIDS, and his words resonate in areas of the world where people are too poor, and too poorly educated, to understand that the pope's religious belief, however deeply felt, indeed, because it is so deeply felt, is medical nonsense. (ffrf.org)
  • But the framers also protected government from religious interference by prohibiting any religious test for public office, omitting any mention of God from the Constitution, and reserving supreme governmental authority for "We the People. (ffrf.org)
  • I've known plenty of people who are "intrinsic"-ly religious, at least, they don't care who sees them at their religious services, they don't care much for society, etc., and still have a high mental illness, anxiety, depression, etc. quotient - exactly opposite of what the researchers found. (kottke.org)
  • And this would, in fact, seem to be more in line with the author's list of people who do seemingly-crazy things for their religious beliefs. (kottke.org)
  • That way, all religious people are, by definition, foolish and irrational, and nonreligious people can always feel superior. (kottke.org)
  • Leading scholars categorize secularism into types, involving shifts in beliefs, state-religion separation, and differentiation from religious norms. (ihavenet.com)
  • While secularism is intended to ensure religious freedom and prevent the dominance of any particular religion in government affairs, it can sometimes inadvertently lead to epistemic injustices towards religion. (ihavenet.com)
  • To begin with, secularism marginalizes religious knowledge and discards knowledge derived from scriptures, which had been a major source of knowledge for thousand years before the enlightenment. (ihavenet.com)
  • For example, Canada's dominant Judeo-Christian culture shifted towards secularism starting in the 1960s, accelerated by the Charter in 1982, emphasizing individualism over religious influence in societal values. (ihavenet.com)
  • Many sociologists including Karl Marx calls religion 'opium of the people', thereby devaluing religious knowledge. (ihavenet.com)
  • The elevation of secular perspectives in secularism-centric discussions tends to relegate religious viewpoints to the sidelines or even exclude them altogether, ultimately culminating in a dearth of diversity within deliberations and the formulation of decisions.Prominent scholars analyzing secularism have typically classified it into three main categories. (ihavenet.com)
  • Keddie defines secularism as involving an increase in people with secular beliefs, reduced religious influence in major life domains, and heightened separation of the state from religion. (ihavenet.com)
  • In sub-clause (b) of clause (2), the reference to Hindus shall be construed as including a reference to persons professing the Sikh, Jaina or Buddhist religion, and the reference to Hindu religious institutions shall be construed accordingly. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • No person shall be compelled to pay any taxes, the proceeds of which are specifically appropriated in payment of expenses for the promotion or maintenance of any particular religion or religious denomination. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • 3) No person attending any educational institution recognised by the State or receiving aid out of State funds shall be required to take part in any religious instruction that may be imparted in such institution or to attend any religious worship that may be conducted in such institution or in any premises attached thereto unless such person or, if such person is a minor, his guardian has given his consent thereto. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • No one should do anything that belittles the religious faith of the people. (nepalnews.com)
  • In a written statement, Kirkpatrick said: "The study of religion is incomplete without a thorough knowledge of secularism, which has proven to be both a viable and attractive alternative for many people to religious belief and practice and a challenge to religious believers to make a stronger case for the place of religion in contemporary society. (nebhe.org)
  • Secularist groups are entirely opposed to discrimination against people because of their religious beliefs. (obsidian.net)
  • The ruling is reportedly based on a 2021 "separatism" law passed in President Emmanuel Macron's first term, which allows the suspension of measures that would "undermine secularism and the neutrality of public services. (jonathanturley.org)
  • Secularism in Bangladesh is known as "neutrality of religion" (Bengali: ধর্মনিরপেক্ষতা) under Bangladeshi law. (wikipedia.org)
  • However the Court has left it open to the Belgian court to conclude that such a rule might amount to indirect discrimination on the grounds of religion or belief if it could be established that a neutrality rule put "persons adhering to a particular religion or belief being put at a particular disadvantage. (secularism.org.uk)
  • The Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism is a civil society organization located in Mumbai, India. (csss-isla.com)
  • Political scientist Neera Chandhoke takes on this fraught question in a thoughtful analysis that reinterprets and powerfully reworks the concepts of pluralism, secularism, tolerance and coexistence in the context of India today. (thehindu.com)
  • Secularism in India, says Chandhoke, is not the same as western secularism: for in India, it has acquired a distinctive meaning ever since, in the context of the bitter communal riots, the leaders of the freedom struggle adopted secularism as a basic principle of democratic polity precisely as a response to the atmosphere of strife. (thehindu.com)
  • Since the early summer, we also see more people from India and Tunisia making their way from Serbia -- which they can enter legally without a visa -- through neighboring countries and, thus, also through Austria. (eurac.edu)
  • For an account of secularism in India by the eminent jurist, Michael Kirby, search for 'India' here . (concordatwatch.eu)
  • If the poorest of the poor people must get the topmost priority in terms of welfare programs, then surely those households who have been employed in manual scavenging (MS) work in India should get the highest priority. (countercurrents.org)
  • In Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age , a prominent and varied group of scholars chart the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes and address wider questions of secularism and secularity. (harvard.edu)
  • Article 12 elaborates further on secularism and freedom of religion. (wikipedia.org)
  • d) any discrimination against, or persecution of, persons practising a particular religion. (wikipedia.org)
  • Secularism - Atheism, agnosticism, and humanism - promoting a secular society and taking a critical view of faith and religion. (theness.com)
  • While it is written that the ban on burkinis and head scarfs is to promote 'Secularism', I believe these laws are similar to bans on suicide and euthanasia, and promote the most basic idea of western religion - that God made each of us as beautiful individual souls. (jonathanturley.org)
  • We are trying to create the awareness that secularism is not against religion. (merip.org)
  • It has become the orthodoxy in the West that freedom, human rights and reason all derive from secularism and that the greatest threat to all these good things is religion. (melaniephillips.com)
  • This attack on secular government is especially ironic, because it comes at a time when people around the world are witnessing extraordinary and terrifying new demonstrations of the power of religion to do harm when it is united with political and state power. (ffrf.org)
  • Join us for the book launch and a discussion of CACI director Svante Cornell's " The New Secularism in the Muslim World: Religion and the State in Central Asia and Azerbaijan . (silkroadstudies.org)
  • some people fill that need with religion. (kottke.org)
  • Defining secularism is challenging, but it's rooted in the idea of detaching religion from everyday social and political affairs. (ihavenet.com)
  • 1) Subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion. (concordatwatch.eu)
  • This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age , where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect. (harvard.edu)
  • Make[s] an important contribution to the resurgence of scholarly interest in religion and politics in the last decade… Given the complexity and length of Taylor's work, Varieties of Secularism serves as a useful introduction to the book. (harvard.edu)
  • To my mind, however, the collection can stand alone-largely because of the strength of some of the chapters which make a wider contribution to debates about secularism… Varieties of Secularism is a useful collection for those attempting to work through the particularities of contemporary secularism, given not just the heightened awareness of globality but a new way of thinking about secularism that recognizes its continued dependence upon religion. (harvard.edu)
  • He was founding editor of The Immanent Frame , a Social Science Research Council digital forum on religion, secularism, and the public sphere. (harvard.edu)
  • In the early 2000s, the foundation sought to encourage academic research on the growing world population of people who have no religion. (nebhe.org)
  • Frank Kirkpatrick, professor of religion and a former dean of faculty, has been a strong backer of the secularism institute and has drawn on its research in his own work. (nebhe.org)
  • and women between secularism and religion. (lu.se)
  • Article 8 provides that "The principles of nationalism, socialism, democracy and secularism, together with the principles derived from those as set out in this Part, shall constitute the fundamental principles of state policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Palestinian nationalism has a long history of respect for secularism. (electronicintifada.net)
  • So what this way of looking at history does is focus our attention on people who are supposed to be like us-that is, secular people, people who do not acknowledge any source of truth apart from the free exercise of reason, like Socrates and Aristotle, Voltaire and Hume. (partiallyexaminedlife.com)
  • The right wing thinks that secularism is an outright blasphemy of sorts, while the liberals hold that the genesis of Pakistan was through an anti-secular process. (razarumi.com)
  • Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age succeeds in conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book. (harvard.edu)
  • The different uses to which the contributors put Taylor in examining a range of secularisms also speaks to the variety of ideas, mediations, and propositions at work in A Secular Age . (harvard.edu)
  • Many people still grapple with the proposals and analyses offered in Charles Taylor's A Secular Age , and this reviewer expects that will continue for a generation. (harvard.edu)
  • But Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age is a sort of first report from the front, as it were-a rich, probing, multidisciplinary engagement with Taylor's diagnosis of the present day. (harvard.edu)
  • Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age will be crucial in bringing the debate on the secular, in all of its theoretical and practical ramifications, to the next level. (harvard.edu)
  • Secularism is controversial in today's political debates, championed by some and vilified by others. (nebhe.org)
  • Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi has said the law targets some people - particularly Muslim women who wear the hijab - and not others. (cbc.ca)
  • Today, nearly four years into a presidency that has mounted the most radical assault on the separation of church and state in American history, secularism is in even greater trouble in the United States. (ffrf.org)
  • On ABC's The View, Rosie O'Donnell interrupted co-host Elisabeth Hallelbeck's assertion that militant Islam threatens free people around the world: "Just a minute… Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state. (floppingaces.net)
  • In the Constitution of Bangladesh, secularism is mentioned in the preamble as one of the fundamental principles of Bangladeshi law. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1977, secularism was removed from the constitution by a Martial Law directive during the military dictatorship of Ziaur Rahman. (wikipedia.org)
  • The court reinstated secularism in the constitution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Article 8 of the constitution enshrines secularism as a basis for government policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Bangladeshi constitution became the second in South Asia to specifically use the word "secularism" in its text. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now some people want to change the Constitution. (enewsroom.in)
  • Diversity exposure course was organized by Centre for Study of Society and Secularism at Wilson College, Mumbai from 10th to 22nd December, 2018. (csss-isla.com)
  • Sure, some people may have a genetic propensity towards something that expresses itself as belief in a God. (kottke.org)
  • While cultural forms of secularism exclude Muslim rights to public worship, Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape argues that political and constitutional secularism also enables Muslim demands for amplifying calls to prayer. (bloomsbury.com)
  • If anything, the Indian National Congress despite its rhetoric of secularism failed the ultimate test of being accommodative of the Muslim demands. (razarumi.com)
  • With The Atheist Muslim , the author takes on an equally ambitious agenda: setting the stage for a conversation among Muslims in the Western world and Muslim-majority nations - estimated at 1.5 billion people - to bring about a new age of reason. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • As Chandhoke remarks, "To infringe the basics of secularism is to infringe the fundamentals of democracy. (thehindu.com)
  • You have to let people feel that the mechanisms of democracy are available to them,' she said. (cbc.ca)
  • At a legislative hearing in Quebec City, Valérie Plante said the government had failed to take into account how Bill 21 - the so-called secularism bill - will impact minority communities in general, and immigrant women in particular. (cbc.ca)
  • These people want secularism when in minority and Sharia when in majority. (dawn.com)
  • How can people with different beliefs and customs live together in a pluralistic society with civility and mutual respect? (thehindu.com)
  • Against this background, Chandhoke shows that it is the norm of secularism, embedded in the vision of a just society that can enable the transition from an empirically plural society to one that recognises pluralism as valuable in itself. (thehindu.com)
  • Perhaps the real lack of faith in modern society comes down to a lack of reverence for the people around us. (christiancentury.org)
  • It means that in addition to the familiar litany of questions about his handling of priestly abuse, people will also be eager to hear what the pope has to say about economic justice -- and on that score, the pope arrives locked and loaded. (ncronline.org)
  • People have sorted themselves into various groups, why oppose that? (theness.com)
  • But, he said, collectively the region represents a potentially more connected market, about 80 million people. (silkroadstudies.org)
  • I remember reading a fascinating article in Science in which one scientist argued that humans developed speech because an enlarge neocortex allowed them to develop relationships with more people than they could groom in a reasonable period of time. (kottke.org)
  • He works on systematic and political theology, secularism, and the relationship between theology and philosophy and science. (lu.se)
  • OP Shah, who has been hosting iftars to help eradicate misconceptions about Islam for three decades now, argued that celebrating Eid Milan, Holi Milan, and Diwali Milan is a way to maintain secularism. (enewsroom.in)
  • It's one of several powerful revelations in a passionate, timely but, ultimately, muddled plea for secularism and reform in Islam. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • in Hartford, Conn., opened a center for the study of secularism in September 2005, some people worried that it could become a source of friction on campus-yet another battleground in the culture wars that are wreaking havoc in higher education. (nebhe.org)
  • RESULTS: Thirty-one people participated in the study: 18 cancer patients, four carers, and nine staff members. (bvsalud.org)
  • These divisions follow the passions and interests of the people who make up the movement. (theness.com)
  • And to maintain peace, we should follow secularism in letter and spirit. (enewsroom.in)
  • Sound does not respect public/private boundaries, and people experience sound viscerally. (bloomsbury.com)
  • I was in New York last week and I was saying to people at some international meetings, 'Name a country in which there is a law that says you have to choose between your faith and your job, a law that restricts people from certain religions from having certain jobs in the public service. (cbc.ca)
  • Finally, the pope will visit Spain in November, where the Socialist government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has become the bogeyman of the Vatican's imagination -- a global symbol of secularism on steroids, challenging the church on every conceivable front, from abortion to gay marriage to public funding for church-run schools and charities. (ncronline.org)
  • Instead of sectarian-based hostility, people will be able to discover the richness of their respective religions. (merip.org)
  • The Islamic republic has executed more people than any other country in the world other than China so far this year, according to Amnesty International. (rferl.org)
  • Amnesty International says the regime in Tehran has executed more people than any other country in the world other than China so far this year. (rferl.org)
  • If the world is the Lord's, if it speaks of him, if it is sustained by him in every moment, then, granting the historical importance of the idea of secularism, I cannot in good faith proceed as if it has meaning for me, or as if I find it at all appropriate as a term of judgment brought to bear against our period or any other. (christiancentury.org)
  • First, while insiders might see the complex landscape of the broader movement, to the outside world we are one (maybe two) entities - skepticism and atheism (some people think they are the same thing). (theness.com)
  • This causes us to lose sight of people who had a very different perspective, but whose lives and opinions exercised a formative influence on our modern world. (partiallyexaminedlife.com)
  • Secularism is a complex concept stemming from the historical process of secularization in the Western world. (ihavenet.com)
  • By attacking these Biblical foundations in the name of reason and human rights, the culture warriors of secularism are sawing off the branch on which they sit. (melaniephillips.com)
  • Professor Richard Landes, a scholar of apocalyptic movements, notes that for the French revolutionaries the millennial hope lay not in scripture but in Rousseau's theories of freedom and the general will which would be expressed by the liberated voice of the people. (melaniephillips.com)
  • The mayor of Calgary calls Quebec's secularism law, Bill 21, terrifying. (cbc.ca)
  • As he said, many people were deprived of citizenship as the Bill had not been authenticated for long. (nepalnews.com)
  • Article 8 enshrines secularism as one of the fundamental principles of state policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • People braced themselves for a good old-fashioned clash between state and ecclesiastical authority. (sch.gr)
  • Secularism is a recurring topic in Bangladeshi politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • My memories of growing up as a person of faith are principally positive up through middle school. (secularstudents.org)
  • They believe that the reduced numbers attending church show that people have chosen to give up faith. (obsidian.net)
  • This article intends to put together the speech of the young people and the theories about faith, religiosity and ethics. (bvsalud.org)
  • But, people want to ruin the peace in the country, we should not let it happen. (enewsroom.in)
  • And finally, if entry to a country becomes increasingly difficult, return migration decreases substantially, since people are encouraged to stay. (eurac.edu)
  • In 2010, the Bangladesh Supreme Court ruled that the removal of secularism in 1977 was illegal because it was done by an unconstitutional martial law regime. (wikipedia.org)
  • The court ruled that such policies "undermin[ed] secularism. (jonathanturley.org)
  • He announced that "The administrative court considers that the mayor of Grenoble, with his decision allowing burkinis in municipal pools, is seriously undermining secularism. (jonathanturley.org)
  • Border controls overall make irregular migration more dangerous, as people have to resort to even more difficult routes, longer distances or indeed desperate measures to circumvent controls. (eurac.edu)
  • How did Trinity make a secularism institute a uniter rather than a divider ? (nebhe.org)
  • make a note on the baptismal record of those who wish to leave the Church (1999) ♦ issue the applicant written confirmation of this (2002) ♦ permit the application to be made by post, rather than in person (2003) ♦ note this on the confirmation register when the place of baptism is unknown (2006) ♦ and even correspond in Italian, rather than in Latin! (concordatwatch.eu)
  • In the second half, they discuss the rise of identity politics and how identitarians track and expose the ideologically impure, as people face the consequences of their rancor. (skeptic.com)
  • Increasingly, the people to whom we are delivering the gospel will not be former Roman Catholic altar boys or lapsed Lutherans, but people for whom the entire Christian story is foreign. (thegospelcoalition.org)
  • So if Dawkins either says harassing a woman who took him to task is 'funny' or says nothing at all when he knows it is going on then other people take the idea that it is okay to do it. (intensedebate.com)
  • Iran Human Rights said that, so far this year, more than 700 people have been executed in Iran, with a marked increase in recent months. (rferl.org)
  • Secularism is the route to equality and human rights. (merip.org)
  • How can we single out homophobia from a complex oppressive system (patriarchy) that oppresses women, and gender non-conforming people? (electronicintifada.net)
  • Regardless of what anyone might prefer, the historical fact is that the broader rationalist movement spontaneously developed with groups falling generally into one of the three categories above - scientific skepticism, secularism, or rationalism. (theness.com)
  • The Church wants to be able to excommunicate people whenever it pleases, but it doesn't want them to be able to leave whenever they please. (concordatwatch.eu)