Secularism

Secularism

Pseudo-secularism

Jewish secularism

Organized secularism

Secularism in Tunisia

Questioning French Secularism

Secularism in Bangladesh

Secularism in Egypt

Secularism in France

Secularism in Pakistan

Islam and secularism

Secularism in India

Secularism in Iran

Secularism in Albania

Secularism in Turkey

Secularism in Israel

Secularism in Syria

Secularism in Yemen

Secularism in Georgia (country)

Secularism in the Philippines

The Necessity of Secularism

Philippine Atheism, Agnosticism, and Secularism Inc.

Secularism in the Republic of Ireland

Fatwa on Religious Pluralism, Liberalism, and Secularism

Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture

Tom Flynn (author)

Religion in the United Kingdom

Islam and democracy

Hindutva

Michael Rectenwald

Atheism3

• Atheists have an obvious interest in supporting secularism, but secularism itself does not seek to challenge the tenets of any religion or belief, neither does it seek to impose atheism on anyone. (secularism.org.uk)
• He called the harm from "godlessness" to have been "devastating" in the last century, noting "'Nazism, Stalinism, Pol-Pottery, mass murder and broken relationships: all promoted by state-imposed atheism or culture-insinuated secularism. (jonathanturley.org)
• We need to see the big picture that secularism and atheism want us all to hang on our walls and admire. (familyradio.org)

Definition of secularism2

• That should be understood, briefly, as the definition of secularism. (rationalist.com.au)
• Contrary to recent arguments, I maintain that rather than widening the definition of secularism to address this, we should shift our focus, if only slightly. (berghahnjournals.com)

Secular16

• 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)
• 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)
• Political secularism encompasses the schools of thought in secularism that consider the regulation of religion by a secular state. (wikipedia.org)
• Secular nationalists are people that support political secularism within their own state. (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)
• The booklet SECULARISM EXTRA-ORDINARY by Ramen Bando is a goldmine of invaluable information on the current state of affairs in the so-called secular India. (hvk.org)
• To call them secular is to bring a bad name to secularism and miss its essence. (siasat.com)
• Rob talks to Mike Bird, the Academic Dean at Ridley Theological College Melbourne, on the importance of secularism in contemporary Australian life and about his recent book Religious Freedom in a Secular Age (Harper Collins, May 2022). (cis.org.au)
• Without Turkey's non-secular secularism, there would be no way to impose the conservative Islamic values of the AKP on school children. (huffpost.com)
• Turkey needs a constitution that finally gets rid off Turkey's non-secular secularism, which will continue to be used by anybody in power to suppress other groups in society. (huffpost.com)
• As the author suggests, these campaigns can be seen as part of a strategic secularism-the process by which religious actors work to incorporate secular formations into religious agendas. (berghahnjournals.com)
• Moreover, in returning to Talal Asad's 'secular', it becomes evident that care should be taken with the notion of 'secularism' to begin with, even if he did not emphasize this analytically. (berghahnjournals.com)
• Secularism as principle and practice in India is in "danger" and the ruling dispensation may even try to remove the word from the Constitution, senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said, but asserted that "forces of hatred" cannot alter the country's secular character. (dtnext.in)
• but even if the government takes the word 'secularism' out of the Constitution, it is still a secular Constitution. (dtnext.in)
• Are there secular people who are progressing out of secularism and into Christianity? (apologeticscanada.com)
• Michael Brendan Dougherty, in response to my cheers for a pluralist, secular state, presses me via Twitter on what happens if secularism isn't pluralistic. (ordinary-times.com)

India10

• 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)
• We practised secularism in the true spirit & light of sacred culture & heritage of Hindustan (the then undivided India). (hvk.org)
• His writings may provide a thought-provoking reading to those Indian Muslims who adore secularism in a multireligious Nation like India in the light of Socialistic, Democratic, Republican Norms & sacred culture and heritage of the Indian sub-continent. (hvk.org)
• One must not forget the struggle of India to include the word 'secularism' in preamble. (outlookindia.com)
• In the issue, while Ashutosh Bharadwaj discusses different models of secularism and examines how a ritualistic country like India could adopt to it, Rakhi Bose looks into the competitive communalism and how it shapes the political discourse. (outlookindia.com)
• To remember this journey is to make us believe in the strength of secularism that Supreme Court of India in S R Bommai case (1994) clearly said, has always been part of the constitution- at least in essence. (outlookindia.com)
• Secularism in India: Why Is It Imperiled? (columbia.edu)
• The Centre for the Study of Society and Secularism is a civil society organization located in Mumbai, India. (csss-isla.com)
• Secularism as principle and practice is in danger, but I do not see it falling anytime soon: India embodies tolerance and pluralism in its very essence, and I do not believe that forces of hatred can permanently overcome our fundamental secularism," he said. (dtnext.in)
• The journey also included an interview with expert Ram Puniyani, who has dedicated over 30 years to studying secularism and the conflict between Muslims and Hindus in India. (lu.se)

Pseudo-secularism1

• The Hajj issue is one of those instances where the constitution has been twisted and misinterpreted to further the goals of pseudo-secularism. (hvk.org)

Secularity1

• This entry was posted in Politics , Secularism, Women & The State , Secularity & Secularization and tagged Lebanon , Politics , SWS by Webmaster . (trincoll.edu)

Principle4

• Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. (wikipedia.org)
• The separation of religion and state is a key principle of secularism. (secularism.org.uk)
• Secularism champions the principle of one law for all and universal human rights above religious demands. (secularism.org.uk)
• After gaining independence from Pakistan in 1971, the Awami League founded Bangladesh under the guiding principle of secularism. (gallup.com)

Principles6

• As a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based on principles derived solely from the material world, without recourse to religion. (wikipedia.org)
• There are many principles that are associated with all forms of political secularism. (wikipedia.org)
• The modernisers, on the other hand, say a ban would only strengthen the militants, and point out that the principles of secularism are not set in stone and can accommodate exceptions. (bbc.co.uk)
• Secularism was declared one of the fundamental principles of the state, and the use of religion for political ends was prohibited. (gatestoneinstitute.org)
• It then discusses the approach for defining secularism that privileges models and principles, and advocates for an analysis of the devices that produce forms of regulating the religious. (berghahnjournals.com)
• The study of configurations of secularism is the outcome of a consideration of all these elements (models, principles, and devices), and has a strategic focus on ways of defining, delimiting, and managing the religious. (berghahnjournals.com)

Religion12

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Secularism is the closest thing the French have to a state religion. (bbc.co.uk)
• Secularism safeguards freedom of religion or belief and ensures that the government does not favour any particular religion or impose religion on its citizens. (secularism.org.uk)
• Secularism ensures that the right of individuals to freedom of religion is always balanced by the right to be free from religion. (secularism.org.uk)
• The question that needs an answer is, whether secularism is a matter of pragmatic convenience, or is it fully in consonance with religion? (siasat.com)
• To my mind, at the more profound level, secularism is not only compatible with religion but as an idea that embodies tolerance, kindness, and consideration towards those who profess a different faith, it is in itself a deeply religious concept. (siasat.com)
• True secularism is not just about tolerance of all religions and nondiscrimination on the basis of religion, but also tolerance of all ideologies, whether religious or political. (siasat.com)
• Thus Europe seems to have reached a crucial point in its history, a moment in which future tendencies in the field of religion and secularism are being defined, and negotiated. (peterlang.com)

Democracy3

• Carefully considered, secularism, democracy and tolerance are inseparable. (siasat.com)
• and no democracy and secularism without tolerance. (siasat.com)
• rather instead of that they promote democracy and secularism? (islamqa.com)

Islamic1

• Tarabishi declared that a renaissance was needed, and this is when he rediscovered Arabic thought, defending Islam from hereon as a culture and civilisation, within his views of so-called "Islamic Secularism. (gulfnews.com)

Delhi1

• The Future of Secularism (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007). (columbia.edu)

Intolerance1

• Secularism and intolerance are incompatible just as tolerance and secularism are inseparable. (siasat.com)

Liberal1

• Beirut: George Tarabishi, an icon of liberal thought and Arab secularism, died in Paris on March 16. (gulfnews.com)

Pope2

• Pope Benedict XVI says Roman Catholics in the U.S. need to understand the "grave threats" to their faith posed by what he calls radical secularism in the political and cultural arenas, APA reports quoting Associated Press. (apa.az)
• Christians and Jews can work together to challenge the contemporary problems of secularism and disrespect for the human person, Pope Francis told representatives of Judaism in a Vatican audience. (catholicnewsagency.com)

Seeks1

• Secularism seeks to defend the absolute freedom of religious and other belief, and protect the right to manifest religious belief insofar as it does not impinge on the rights and freedoms of others. (secularism.org.uk)

Religions2

• The present volume results from the activities of the Observatory of Religions and Secularism (Observatoire des religions et de la laïcité - ORELA). (peterlang.com)
• ORELA, a project launched in 2012 by the Centre interdisciplinaire d'étude des religions et de la laïcité, aims to monitor new developments concerning religious issues, faith-based organizations, State and Church relations and secularism, in Belgium, in the EU and throughout the world. (peterlang.com)

Constitution4

• Protesters shout slogans on Istiklal Avenue in Istanbul on April 27, 2016, during a protest against a call for the country to adopt a religious constitution.Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu vowed on April 27 that Turkey's draft constitution would guarantee secularism, after calls for a religious charter sparked controversy in the predominantly Muslim country. (huffpost.com)
• The speaker of the Turkish Parliament, Ismail Kahraman, said that the new constitution that the AKP is preparing will have no reference to secularism. (huffpost.com)
• Fearing a secularism-free constitution would be the first step towards introducing Shariah law in their republic, secularist Turks immediately started defending secularism fiercely. (huffpost.com)
• With the suggestion that the new constitution will no longer have any references to secularism, the "Iran fear" is back. (huffpost.com)

Religious6

• Of course, secularism is the way to peace and tranquility in multi-religious societies. (siasat.com)
• If we believe that 'Blessed are the peacemakers' then we should also accept that secularism, which removes conflict amongst people, is profoundly religious in its outlook and not merely pragmatic expediency. (siasat.com)
• The present volume monitors new developments concerning religious issues, faith-based organizations, State-Church relations and secularism in the EU, which especially during the past two decades have undergone profound changes, changes which continuously and increasingly alter mentalities and habits, whether belief-related or not. (peterlang.com)
• These state institutions considered themselves the guards of Turkish secularism and feared takeover by the new religious powers. (huffpost.com)
• Although Bulgaria and Yugoslavia's experiences of socialist secularism differed in the degree of their coerciveness, this article examines the similarities in the conceptualization of the secularizing imperative and the rhetoric used to justify it, specifically the rhetoric of communist modernism and women's liberation from religious backwardness. (berghahnjournals.com)
• The ruling dispensation may well try to do that: there is certainly a concerted effort to erode secularism and replace it with a sectarian way of being that offers no place to religious minorities in Indian society," he said. (dtnext.in)

Societies1

• Secularism is a political idea concerned with the best way to govern religiously pluralist societies. (secularism.org.uk)

Political8

• Scholars identify several variations of political secularism in society. (wikipedia.org)
• Under political secularism, the government can enforce how people act but not what they believe. (wikipedia.org)
• Political secularism also supports reason as a virtue. (wikipedia.org)
• WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Despite the return to power of Bangladesh's Awami League -- the political party that won in December 2008 on a platform of secularism, reform, and a suppression of radical Islamist groups -- religiosity is by no means waning in the world's seventh most populous country. (gallup.com)
• As the debates over Sanatan Dharma clouds the political common sense, Outlook looks back at its secularism issue and recalls the journey of India's secularism. (outlookindia.com)
• And so is the old divide in the Turkish political debate: Islamism versus secularism. (huffpost.com)
• Conceiving of secularism as a transcendent political power, as Asad does, is not only a critique of a secularist narrative, but also a secularist truism itself that can potentially cloud ethnography if applied too readily. (berghahnjournals.com)
• He also asserted that the Congress party cannot risk trying to become 'BJP Lite' as it may end up making it 'Congress Zero' and said his party was not offering a watered-down version of the BJP's political messaging and the spirit of Indian secularism was very much "alive and well" in the grand old party. (dtnext.in)

Moral2

• Has value-free postmodernity, the fruit of modern secularism, undermined the moral foundation essential for democratic capitalism? (christianitytoday.com)
• But now, the person with moral discernment recognizes that American, having embraced secularism, will suffer agony. (charismanews.com)

Belief1

• Board-certified healthcare chaplains (and chaplains working/training under the auspices of board-certified chaplains in USDE- or ACCET-accredited clinical pastoral education [CPE] programs) are extensively trained to witness and accompany persons across all belief systems , including secularism. (medscape.com)

Essence1

• The casteless, genderless training course to become priest offers a different idea ofDharma - perhaps where inclusivity rules not the values antithetical to the essence of secularism. (outlookindia.com)

Bulgaria1

• This article uses the examples of socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to propose some new directions for rethinking scholarly understandings of "secularism" and the ways in which socialist secularizing projects were intricately intertwined with questions of gender equality. (berghahnjournals.com)

Society1

• Secularism simply provides a framework for a democratic society. (secularism.org.uk)

Turkish1

• Turks who now speak out for secularism apparently don't see that it is exactly this Turkish form of "secularism" that put their country in this situation in the first place. (huffpost.com)

Faith1

• It seems that to become a good working Church, the body of Christian believers needs to have an active faith, be students of the Bible, and willing to reach out to others under the guidance of a strong priest in order to stem the rising tide of secularism. (portugalresident.com)

Catholic2

• Secularism was much needed in Europe, he argued, emerging as a remedy to Protestant-Catholic sectarianism, it was equally needed in the Arab World to overcome sectarianism and pave the way for a democratic future. (gulfnews.com)
• Current scholarly debates on the genealogy of secularism root its origins in the Catholic/Protestant West, and systematically ignore cases from the former communist world. (berghahnjournals.com)

Citizens1

• Turkey refuses to transform its 'secularism' to serve all citizens. (huffpost.com)

Form1

• Even those who oppose a headscarf ban do so in the name of a more modern, flexible form of secularism. (bbc.co.uk)

News1

• In the news today: secularism gives our wannabe national savior tummy troubles and an acidic burn in. (ordinary-times.com)

Risks1

• While secularism remains a worthy object, foregrounding it risks tying the field to issues of governance. (berghahnjournals.com)

Country1

• 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)

Culture2

• One need look no further than America's "pop culture" to see how secularism has negatively impacted our nation. (charismanews.com)
• America's Christian heritage and Bible-based culture was under assault from secularism long before Barack Obama's presidency. (charismanews.com)

People2

• Empowered secularism demands the increasing criminalization of its greatest enemy: people who hold a Christian worldview. (charismanews.com)
• In those days, tens of thousands of people gathered in cities like Izmir and Ankara to defend Turkey's secularism. (huffpost.com)

Level1

• Every continent, for example, seems to be dealing with the growing reality of secularism at some level. (saltandlighttv.org)