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
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...
And Todd Weir, while admitting that the Nazi stance toward secularism was ambiguous and even paradoxical, nevertheless argues that the Nazi’s espousal of “positive Christianity” made them opponents of secularism. Scholars and especially popular works on Hitler, in fact, have identified him with ...
Secularism does not reject religion but attempts to bar any single religion from gaining political control. The minister of the interior is also the minister of religions, an office established to ensure the representation of various creeds. About 80 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. ...