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  1. Secularism

    Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on naturalistic considerations, uninvolved with religion. It is most commonly thought of as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state and may be broadened to a similar position seeking to remove or to minimize the role of religion in any public sphere. Secularism may encapsulate anti-clericalism, atheism, naturalism, non-sectarianism, neutrality on topics of religion, or antireligion. As a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based on principles derived solely from the material world, without recourse to religion. It shifts the focus from religion towards "temporal" and material concerns. There are distinct traditions of secularism like the French, Turkish, American and Indian models. These differ greatly, from the American emphasis on avoiding an established religion and the freedom of belief, to the French interventionist and controlling model, and more. Wikipedia

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  2. academic.oup.com

    Dec 2, 2024Here, we draw on the work of Sune Lægaard, who suggests that it is possible to clearly delineate the normative structure of any particular conception of secularism by identifying what he calls its 'basic values', 'intermediate political principles', and 'derived normative prescriptions'. 5 In Sections 3 to 5, we use Lægaard's ...
  3. pragmatism.org

    quently comments on secularism, politics, and higher education in popular media. He is the author of The Secular Bible: Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously and How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom. Joseph Blankholm is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
  4. academic.oup.com

    Abstract. The Oxford Companion to Secularism provides a timely overview of the new multidisciplinary field of secular studies. This field involves philosophy, the humanities, intellectual history, political theory, law, international studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, education, religious studies, and additional disciplines, all showing an increasing interest in the multifaceted ...
  5. emergingtrends.stanford.edu

    implications of this secular turn, in light of the historically high rates of reli-giosity within the United States. In doing so, we distinguish between passive and active secularism and describe measures of each. Passive secularism refers to not being religious—not identifying with a religion, not attending religious
  6. academic.oup.com

    A. Theoretical perspectives on the conflicts between secularism and religion A. Theoretical perspectives on the conflicts between secularism and ... to the extent that the prescriptions emanating from religious faith remain impervious to the strictures of public reason, 1 they stand in the way of the full deployment of reason be it in politics ...
  7. Apr 25, 2023Abstract Jacques Berlinerblau, author of Secularism: The Basics, responds to his nine critics in this edition of the Journal of Secular Studies. ... The new nations, it has been observed, tended to replicate their former colonizer's legal prescriptions regarding relations between religion and government. For example, many French colonies ...
  8. SECULARISM IS MORE than an ideology. It is a moral force, a connective tissue, a widely shared and massively intricate set of political and epistemological assumptions. And like anything in excess of ideo-logy, secularism defies logic, particularly its own (Durkheim 1995). In antebellum America, for example, secularism structured the institutions
  9. timeshighereducation.com

    Secularism for them is, among other things, a project of governance. In my own work, I refer to this as "political secularism". I define it as legally binding actions of the secular state that seek to regulate the relationship between itself and religious citizens, and between religious citizens themselves. ... Their prescriptions for ...
  10. britannica.com

    Dec 10, 2024Secularism is a worldview or political principle that separates religion from other realms of human existence, often putting greater emphasis on nonreligious aspects of human life and government. It can be a political model that separates church and state or a philosophical outlook opposed to religion. The term is closely related to and often confused with the terms 'secular' (referring to ...

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