Will Self: 'I think of it as the separation of church(es) from the state' I suspect it doesn't mean anything particularly original to me: I simply think of it as the separation of church(es) from the ...

(RNS) — At its core, secularism is an approach to governance, writes Jacques Berlinerblau in his new book ‘Secularism: The Basics.’ And critically, it is one many religious people, not just atheists ...

If it is true that Australia does the secular state in a unique and inclusive manner, then this approach is fatally flawed and has proven to be a miserable failure. In September of 2010, Talal Asad, ...

On October 31, Ashok Swain, an Indian-origin professor of peace and conflict at Uppsala University in Sweden, wrote in a tweet, “India is like the Middle East & North Africa—consti­tu­tionally secular ...

The question: What is secularism? What is the relationship between secularism, the state policy; and secularisation, the social process? Most conversations tend to confuse the two, moving from one to ...

Given that secularism had not been defined in the Constitution and did not form part of the preamble until the 1970s, given that the meaning Nehru allotted to the concept was not codified in law, and ...

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Protests against the French veil ban. Credit: http://www.barenakedislam.com. All rights reserved. The 1970s feminist movement asked ‘Is religion bad for women ...

Secularism as a modern concept is aligned with the concepts of equality, freedom, and democracy. Secularism anywhere in the world works is the antidote to communalism, which is required to check the ...

Article 20 of Japan’s constitution, written in 1946, states the following: “Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor ...