CHURCH & stateRELIGIOUS institutionsSECULARISMPOLITICS & cultureThe Western discourse and norms around secularism, particularly Church-state relations, are foreign in many ways to the majority world, especially Asia. However, as the modern nation-state has taken root in Asia, different models of ...
If I understand it aright, the challenge we face is to explore if the separation of church and state is a precondition for freedom and democracy. If understood in strictly legal terms, the short answer I imagine would be, of course not. There are myriad
The biggest challenge it faces is whether it can be multiculturalized, particularly in accommodating Muslims (Modood, 2010). In contrast, there is radical secularism, or “hard” and “aggressive” secularism. This form emphasizes the strict separation of church and state and advocates for ...
sexual morality as an antidote for nihilism. I am still certain that traditional sexual morality is an antidote for nihilism. Unfortunately, it is being undercut by some leading Catholics. See for instance:Cardinal McElroy: Sex and sin need a new framework in the church | America Magazine. Ev...
CATHOLIC ChurchCHRISTIAN missionsIn this paper I discuss the crisis of Indian secularism and how Roman Catholic Indian theologians address such a crisis. First, I define the crisis as the result of the application of Western illiberal ideas to the distinct reality of Indian secularism. The r...
(very broadly) Absence of belief that any deities exist (including absence of the concept of deities). Secularism The political belief in the separation of church and state, i.e. the position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions. Atheism (historical) Absence...
paradigm. It is emphasised that the “sufficient space from religion to function” is used by the Belarusian state for the separation in one sense (prohibition of religious knowledge transmission) and integration in another (binding religion with state ideology). Prescribing the Orthodox Church and ...
The National Secular Society is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that no-one ... B Smoker - Alphascript Publishing 被引量: 1发表: 2011年 The fires of identity politics: North Sumatra gubernatorial election of 2018 This ...
Since the beginnings of the Church, Christians have respected temporal power. The Catholic Church prays every Sunday for the political authorities. That said, the relations between Church and State have not always been fully clear. The presence of Islam in today’s France is upsetting the equilibr...
2These debates have only just begun to enter the field of interna-tional relations. When Christine Sylvester wrote that international relations“smacks of debates within the hierarchy of one church,” she might have beenright in more ways than one.3For the most part, it is a secular church....