Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. (wikipedia.org)
Secularism is most commonly thought of as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state and may be broadened to a similar position seeking to remove or to minimize the role of religion in any public sphere. (wikipedia.org)
Secularism can be also defined as treating every religion equally and providing equal facility. (wikipedia.org)
As a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based on principles derived solely from the material world, without recourse to religion. (wikipedia.org)
The purposes and arguments in support of secularism vary widely, ranging from assertions that it is a crucial element of modernization, or that religion and traditional values are backward and divisive, to the claim that it is the only guarantor of free religious exercise. (wikipedia.org)
Secularism takes different forms with varying stances on where and how religion should be separate from other aspects of society. (wikipedia.org)
Political secularism encompasses the schools of thought in secularism that consider the regulation of religion by a secular state. (wikipedia.org)
Religious minorities and non-religious citizens in a country tend to support political secularism while members of the majority religion tend to oppose it. (wikipedia.org)
In Indian political discourse, the pejorative term pseudo-secularism is also used to highlight instances where it is believed that while the state purports to be secular, indifferent, or impartial towards religions, its policies in reality favor a particular religion over others. (wikipedia.org)
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)
Defining secularism is challenging, but it's rooted in the idea of detaching religion from everyday social and political affairs. (ihavenet.com)
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)
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)
They also want to inform the public debate on the role of religion and secularism in sexuality, gender and the Dutch multicultural society. (rug.nl)
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)
RAPT (Religion And Political Theory) aims to re-assess the foundations of the special nature of religion in legal and political theory, by reference to the growing body of multi-disciplinary literature about post secularism. (europa.eu)
So, instead of presenting the problem in a simplistically dichotomous fashion ('secular' versus 'religious' or 'post-secular'), RAPT sees religion itself as the contested term in the debate between secularism and its critics. (europa.eu)
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)
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)
Pope Benedict XVI is likely to focus on religious freedom during the first official State visit by a pontiff to Britain, where secularism is growing and Christianity declining. (anglicanjournal.com)
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In Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and Foreign Policy (2021), Sarah Wolff argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences international politics. (georgetown.edu)
There are distinct traditions of secularism in the West, like the French, Benelux-German, Turkish, and American models, and beyond, as in India, where the emphasis is more on equality before law and state neutrality rather than blanket separation. (wikipedia.org)
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)
Judgment2
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)
But when alt is said and done, the majority judgment is not a juristic victory for secularism and may trouble the secular cause for many years to come. (epw.in)
Reflections1
With the Tunisian Revolution and the fall of President Ben Ali came a variety of reflections about secularism and the position of women in Tunisia, by politicians, journalists and academics. (laviedesidees.fr)
Secular society1
People of any religious denomination can support a secular society, but the adoption of secularism as an identity is typically associated with non-religious individuals, including atheists. (wikipedia.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)
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)
Blasphemy1
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)
Islam1
The Catholic Church faces two formidable challenges today, from Islam and from secularism. (hprweb.com)
Religious5
the issue is the contempt with which Mr Koshyari used the term "secularism", equating it with the closure of religious places. (hindustantimes.com)
The Quebec government has defined the bill as a secularism bill, stressing that removing religious symbols from its employees will ensure its services are perceived as equal for everyone receiving them with no preferential treatment. (hrreporter.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)
Though Kierkegaard has often been considered a reactionary who defended the centrality of Christian faith against secular forms of rationality and politics, recent research reveals overlap between Kierkegaard and philosophers associated with secularization (including Kant and Hegel), demonstrating the feasibility of deploying Kierkegaard's religious thought to address pressing questions about secularism. (lu.se)
Critics1
of Secularism Joseph Tharamangalam In this paper the arguments of three critics of secularism TNMadan, Ashis Nandy, and M N Srinivas are examined, as well as their implications for India's pluralist society. (epw.in)
Practice2
There have been distortions in the practice of secularism, but this does not take away from the importance of the principle. (hindustantimes.com)
However, although secularism is in many ways a hazy concept and there is no uncontroversial model of a secular state, nevertheless - especially in the light of French law - it seems clear that building such a state means putting into practice certain principles at the institutional level. (laviedesidees.fr)
India2
One thing that I realised that he feels very strongly about few issues, especially how secularism is perceived in India," Kabir said here on the sidelines. (indiajournal.com)
The Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism is a civil society organization located in Mumbai, India. (csss-isla.com)
Principle1
In this conversation, Wolff and Berkley Center Senior Fellow Jocelyne Cesari unpacked secularism as a bedrock principle of international relations and diplomacy. (georgetown.edu)
Controversial2
Secularism may be a controversial word for dominant sections of India's polity, but it is a cherished constitutional value. (hindustantimes.com)
Secularism is controversial in today's political debates, championed by some and vilified by others. (nebhe.org)
Society2
Henri Guaino) [ 1 ] "A society marked by 'a certain religiosity' in spite of its secularism. (laviedesidees.fr)
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)
Term1
The term "secularism" has a broad range of meanings, and in the most schematic, may encapsulate any stance that promotes the secular in any given context. (wikipedia.org)
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)
Religion's biggest problem in both Europe and America is clearly secularism, that godless popular culture promoted certainly by the entertainment media, sometimes by science and academia, often by political correctness, and sadly by the ignorance, superstition and indifference of Christians themselves. (thericatholic.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)
Bill1
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)
Political5
Secular nationalists are people that support political secularism within their own state. (wikipedia.org)
There are many principles that are associated with all forms of political secularism. (wikipedia.org)
Under political secularism, the government can enforce how people act but not what they believe. (wikipedia.org)
While the number-crunchers debate the health of evangelicalism, we can all clearly see that secularism is on the rise. (thegospelcoalition.org)
Public life1
But it does highlight a conundrum faced in a country where laïcité , French's rigid version of secularism, is ingrained as a cornerstone of public life. (worldcrunch.com)
Word1
I will pause over the word secularism because I don't know how it should be understood in a Christian context. (christiancentury.org)
People1
Le Monde ) [ 2 ] "In the eyes of well-informed French people, the basis of Bourguiba's greatness and of Tunisia's good fortune was the status of women and secularism. (laviedesidees.fr)
Range1
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)
Church1
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)
Readers1
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)
Categories1
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)
Make1
How did Trinity make a secularism institute a uniter rather than a divider ? (nebhe.org)