Many religious people in the United States see secularism as evil, as an enemy not only of their faith but of the nation as well. But when we focus on creating what can be called a secular society, we ...

The Muslim world is not a monolith. It contains far more disagreement about the future of Islamic politics than is imagined by those who think that all Muslims are “Islamofascists.” Nothing ...

Courtesy of Yo sí quiero un Estado Laico Costa Rica Yo sí quiero un estado laico (I do want a secular state) is a collective that deeply believes that religion and the state should be separated so ...

A fragmented two-state settlement risks replicating South Africs’s Bantustan-style separation, while a single secular ...

As Nepal's constitution-writing process nears completion, the provision of a secular state — one of the key achievements gained through the country's democracy movement — is likely to be dropped from ...

An Iraqi Christian is shown during preparations before Pope Francis visit at the main stadium in Irbil, Iraq, Saturday, March 6, 2021. (Credit: Hadi Mizban/AP.) Listen ROME – Perhaps the most ...

French Muslims are in the process of reconciling with the Fifth Republic of France, established with the 1958 Constitution, which declares France to be a secular state. In the past thirty years, ...

The following review of Dario Antiseri’s book, L’invenzione cristiana della laicità (Rubbettino, 2017) appeared June 9, 2017 in Avvenire. Whether “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar ...

The Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority effectively declared on Tuesday that the separation of church and state—a principle enshrined in the Constitution—is, itself, unconstitutional. Its 6–3 ...

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