Secularism as a Project of Free and Equal Citizenship: Reflections on the Turkish Case [PDF]
This article undertakes a defense of secularism, much maligned by postmodernists and multiculturalists. First, secularism as a normative political principle is conceptually distinguished from the discredited sociological theory of secularization and ...
Haldun Gülalp
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Secularism and Ethnic Minorities: Comparative Case Studies on Ethnic, Religious, and Political Cognitions in Pakistani-Controlled Kashmir, Central Russia, Romania, and Northern Scandinavia [PDF]
According to my study, “political secularism” means the separation of political power from religious institutions, while “social secularism” is a theory and endeavor to eliminate religiosity from not only public but also private life, considering it an ...
László Koppány Csáji
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Secularism and Secular People [PDF]
Author(s): Blankholm, Joseph | Abstract: This article bridges the gap between the study of religion-making secularism and the study of secular people with an empirical analysis of three recent lawsuits filed by secular activists in the United States. Each suit asks the courts to understand nonbelievers in a different way: one group refuses to identify ...
Joseph Blankholm
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SECULARIZATION IN THE MIND OF MUSLIM REFORMISTS: A Case Study of Nurcholish Madjid and Fouad Zakaria [PDF]
Nurcholish Madjid (Indonesia) and Fouad Zakaria (Egypt) represent the two most influential Muslim thinkers concerned with the issue of secularization. This article is a comparative analysis of their ideas, which have triggered intellectual debate on the ...
Mun’im Sirry
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Secularism as a human right: learning from the European Court of Human Rights [PDF]
Secularism is conventionally (and somewhat misleadingly) defined as the separation of state and religion. This article offers an alternative and more refined concept of secularism as a normative political principle of social peace within the context of ...
Haldun Gülalp
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The Cultural Psychology of Religiosity, Spirituality, and Secularism in Adolescence [PDF]
Lene Arnett Jensen
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Representation of the ideas of secularism in the Islamic world in the thought of Mohammed Arkoun [PDF]
Since the 1970s, Mohammed Arkoun (1928-2010) has worked on projects such as "Islamic Criticism, " "Applied Islamology, " and "Prospective Critical Wisdom" with the goal of monitoring and conducting Islamic studies as well as the crisis of the Islamic ...
Majid Menhaji
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The Controversies over State Secularism in the Constitution of the 4th Republic of Madagascar [PDF]
The first article of the 4th Republic of Madagascar states that Madagascar is a secular State. However, there are many controversies related to this secularism. Those controversies are both textual and empirical.
Rota Ranavalonatina Ramahefarivo
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Political liberalism and justificatory secularism [PDF]
In this paper I analyze Cécile Laborde’s conception of justificatory secularism. Laborde points out that in her formulation and defense of the conception of justificatory secularism, she follows Rawls’ conception of political liberalism to a ...
Mladenović Ivan
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This paper attempts to discuss the discourse related to secularism. Secularism is an ideology that is understood as a process of separation between religion and the world.
Asep Awaludin, Kusuma Dewi Nur Aini
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