This article argues for a transregional historical approach to explain the career of political secularism, i.e. the ideas and practices that inform the mod
During the first decade of this century, the government’s desire to attract Turkish and Gulf investors caused it to turn a blind eye to the growing sympathy of many Syrians outside of the capital felt towards political Islam. During his first ten years in power, Bashar al-Assad permitted ...
mix of wealthy conspiracy theorists, anti-statist lunatics, avowed racists, and concerned “little old ladies in tennis shoes,” the JBS became a political force of the Cold War era, motivated by a portfolio of distinct but overlapping fears—communism, civil rights, feminism, secularism, etc. ...
POSTSECULARISMHUMAN sexualityBRITISH religionsRELIGION & societyLUSTSOCIOLOGYSOCIAL conditions in Great Britain, 1945-Histories of 20th century British religion and sexuality, and that work which connects the two, have, until recently, been structured by the secularisation thesis, the assumption that ...
America is at a pivitol moment in our history. With secularism seeping in to every corner of our society, it's never been more important for our children to learn the truth about God's role in our history so they can preserve our foundations for the future. ...
Moreover, Classical thought considered ethics qua ethics, politics qua politics: it lacked the inhibiting dualism occasioned in medieval thought by the often-conflicting demands of secularism and Christian spirituality. Classical virtue, in examples of which the literature abounded, was not an abstract...
was made the official national flag for use by the common people, the army, and the navy. This flag was seen to embody all the principles of the Revolution—liberty, equality, fraternity, democracy, secularism, and modernization. Many other countries—especially in Europe but also among the fo...
piece of American political philosophy, a ringing endorsement of the secular state that “should be as familiar to students of American history as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution,” as Susan Jacoby has written inFreethinkers, her excellent history of American secularism. ...
Since the later 20th century, the use of CE and BCE have been popularized in academic and scientific publications, and more generally by authors and publishers wishing to emphasize secularism or sensitivity to non-Christians, because the system does not explicitly make use of religious titles for ...
It is the hero that they never had ever since, a hero who is seen as a dreamer and visionary who carried the ideals of secularism, humanism and socialism, and beyond all a good and pure man. This is especially relevant because his son and successor Walid represents the other kind of ...