This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The past two decades have produced a bulky literature on religion and politics, with many writers being influenced by Habermas's notion of ...

When colleges call themselves secular, what, exactly, do they mean? "One of the things that we’re particularly trying to engage is how it is that the emergence of our secular identity has had ...

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France rejected calls for secular values to be enshrined in his country’s constitution and urged religious leaders to do more to spread their message in the country. “A ...

If you like the challenge of delving into the thought of two heavyweight German intellectuals, this book is for you. In 2004, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Jürgen Habermas, one of Germany’s most ...

France’s education minister has warned against “militant secularity” in a country where a long-standing ban on Islamic headscarves, Jewish kippahs and other religious symbols in schools continues to ...

Last week, for four days, I was in Kananaskis, Alberta, about 90 minutes from Calgary. I was speaking at the annual Blueprints conference, an extraordinarily well-coordinated gathering for principals ...

I appreciate the sentiment of Tom Bowers’ Sept. 29 letter to the editor. We need more conversation, more attempts to understand each other. We do ourselves no favors when we assume that those on “the ...

When the contemporary secular movement is compared to the gay rights movement, objections are sometimes raised by those who distinguish between the two on biological grounds. Whereas sexual ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article probes into the issue of secularity as a main node of the historic construction of modern power and the modern state in Europe.

It should be clear that a question of religion is not the same thing as a question of secularity. The June 3 ruling by a High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, in favour of religion-related veil-wearing by ...