In conclusion, secularism is the revolutionary principle of being a people. Therefore, defending secularism is not about preserving a principle of the past but about the will to build a shared future ...
The Turkish president says critics target Türkiye’s religious identity and national values, as backlash to Ramadan activities in schools ...
What some circles in Türkiye understand by secularism is not freedom, but exclusion and privileging of their lifestyle over ...
Minister Tekin filed a lawsuit against the 168 people who signed the Secularism Declaration, and President Erdoğan also ...
(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 ...
In the public school I went to in the 1970s, "secular" was A neutral, descriptive word. Our social-studies teacher taught us that ours was a "secular" government, by which she meant that we lived free ...
A new directive encourages Ramadan-themed events and mosque visits in Turkish schools. Critics warn it pressures students and challenges secular principles, while the government says participation is ...
The 67 million Catholics in the United States represent just six percent of the global Catholic population of 1.2 billion, but we sometimes have a hard time understanding how the other 94 percent ...
The rise of a secular culture, combined with an increasing number of self-identified atheists and agnostics in western societies, has led to a certain amount of handwringing among religious believers.
Editor’s note: On Sunday’s Op-Ed page, sociologist Phil Zuckerman took aim at those who blame increasing secularism in this country for a host of societal ills, including recent mass shootings. He ...
Tolerance, openness and secularism are the first steps towards economic prosperity, according to new research. Since the Enlightenment began in the eighteenth century, many societies around the world ...
Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma advocated for removing "secularism" and "socialism" from the Constitution's Preamble, echoing RSS's suggestion. He believes these terms, added during the Emergency, ...