Scholars seek to reclaim a dirty word: secularism (RNS) A conference at Georgetown University this week focused on cleaning up what many Americans consider a dirty word: secularism. The goal of the ...

Erin Manning, in top form, riffing off the thread about the ACLU suing a Louisiana school over its alleged religious discrimination against a Buddhist kid: If this case is as reported, then the ACLU ...

Article 20 of Japan’s constitution, written in 1946, states the following: “Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor ...

On Feb. 20, a conference at Georgetown University here focused on cleaning up what many Americans consider a dirty word -- secularism. The goal of the conference, called “Secularism on the Edge: ...

“Largely secular” is not the descriptor that leaps to mind when thinking about Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. But that’s what James Clapper, U.S. director of national intelligence, called the group while ...

The Constitution of India is not ambiguous. The Preamble declares India a “Sovereign Socialist Secular Democratic Republic”, committed to justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity. These are not ...

Secularism leaves the mystery of deity to the chartered imagination of man, and does not attempt to close the door of the future, but holds that the desert of another existence belongs only to those ...

Governments in Britain have tended to treat Muslim citizens much like colonial administrations treated their subjects. Intermediaries – tribal leaders or religious figures – are found to establish ...

A conference at Georgetown University in Washington this week focused on cleaning up what many Americans consider a dirty word – secularism. The goal of the conference, called "Secularism on the Edge, ...