Secularism

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A naturally conservative nation

Thomas C. Reeves | 26 August 2011 |

tags: conservatism, liberalism, secularism

In a recent Gallup poll, only 21 per cent of Americans called themselves liberals.

Who are the real fundamentalists?

Gudrun Kugler | 19 July 2011 |

tags: fundamentalism, religious freedom, secularism

Secularists who want to evict religion from the public square are strong contenders for the label.

Ways out of the Christian ghetto

Joseph Weiler | 04 February 2011 |

tags: Christianity, religious freedom, secularism

A Jewish scholar reflects on what can reverse the retreat of Christians before militant secularism.

Secularity vs secularism: an enlightening distinction

Jerome di Costanzo and Rémi Brague | 07 October 2010 |

tags: atheism, secularism, secularity

Who invented the secular state? A professor of religious philosophy from the Sorbonne gives a surprising answer.

Whistling past the graveyard

Dwight G. Duncan | 20 July 2010 |

tags: public discourse, secularism

Why is public debate so shallow, impoverished and pointless? A new book contends that reason has been exiled and replaced by mere reasonableness.

Leaving a space for religion in the public square

Margaret Somerville | 18 May 2010 |

tags: culture wars, religion, secularism

Public debate will be much poorer if arguments of religious people are shut away in a closet. 

Shall the religious inherit the earth?

Eric P Kaufmann | 06 April 2010 |

tags: demography, religion, secularism

Quite likely, on current demographic trends, argues a British political scientist in a book just published in Britain.

Paedophile priests and the pope

Marcello Pera | 03 April 2010 |

tags: Benedict XVI, secularism, sexual abuse

The issue of abusive priests has become another excuse for the war of secularism against Christianity, says a former president of the Italian Senate.

Guess who invented ‘holiday trees’

Joanna Bogle | 17 December 2009 |

tags: Christmas, Nazis, secularism

Today’s secularist zealots should be unhappy to learn exactly whose company they are travelling in.