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 ...

In May 2021, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs issued an order to lower the volume of mosque loudspeakers and use them only for calls to prayer, rather than to broadcast full sermons. Faced ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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: ...

Today's Faith & Reason blog discussion question asks if you see secularism on the rise and whether you think that's a good or bad thing. Welcome to Faith & Reason (or welcome back if you followed my ...

BEIRUT — They had no blessing from the government. No politician in a big black SUV bankrolled them. None of the television stations controlled by political parties publicized their efforts. And no ...

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 ...

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, ...