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Constitutionalizing secularism, alternative secularisms or liberal-democratic constitutionalism?<br>A critical reading of some Turkish, ECtHR and Indian Supreme Court cases on ‘secularism’

Utrecht Law Review, 2010
In recent debates on the constitutional status of 'secularism' we can discern three positions. The first tries to overcome the absence of 'secularism' in most liberal-democratic constitutions by developing a more robust theory of constitutional ...
Veit Bader
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Religious literacy for a secular age: approaches from secularism studies and affect theory [PDF]

, 2020
Religious literacy has become a widely invoked concept in scholarship, policy, popular discourse, and beyond. Since the 1990s, but more actively since 9/11, arguments in favor of training citizens to “get” religion and to understand why it matters “on ...
Ellis, Justine
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The "Religious Secularism" of Lebanon and the United States: A Discussion between Lebanon's Secular Debate and Madison's "Principles of Pluralism"

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2002
Within the current discussions of Jslam and democracy, the issue of secularism has now become one of the most important themes. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main premise put forward by Jslamic scholars in various forms has been ...
David D. Grafton
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Secularism [PDF]

, 2020
The chapter articulates a political theory of secularism that can be defended against common, legitimate criticisms of existing forms of secularism. What I call minimal secularism is not vulnerable to the claim that secularism is hostile to religion ...
Laborde, Cécile
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Unravelling the Indian Conception of Secularism: Tremors of the Pandemic and Beyond

Secularism and Nonreligion, 2021
The State’s engagement with religion has formed one of the recurring themes of conflict in India’s democratic experiment. The Indian model of secularism, which evolved in an attempt to resolve this conflict, has distinguished itself from separation-model
Malcolm Katrak, Shardool Kulkarni
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Sekularitet - förstahet genom religion och kön

Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2018
Secularities – firstness through religion and gender In this article we explore how positing religion as other simultaneously makes secularism a firstness. How is secularism embodied and reproduced as an objective and neutral space – a firstness.
Linda Berg, Mikela Lundahl, Lena Martinsson   +2 more
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Religion and Secularism in France Today [PDF]

, 2022
This volume examines the perception of the French principle of laïcité or secularism and attempts to demonstrate to English-speaking readers that the configurations of the French model of laïcité are both more flexible and complex than they appear to be.

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From Habermas to Derrida: A Weak Form of Secular Universalism

Problemos, 2021
In this article, I argue that a universalistic thrust of secularism should not be located in a Habermasian deontological liberal principle of the priority of universal morality over particularistic ethical doctrines. I show that Habermas cannot plausibly
Giorgi Tskhadaia
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Caught between Islam and the West: secularism in the Kemalist discourse [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis identifies the defining signifiers for the Kemalist discourse as the West and Islam. Kemalism mainly related to the West through the hegemonic discourse of Orientalism, and the Kemalist attitude towards Islam was characterised by its peculiar
Çarmikli, E.S.
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The Pioneering Formulation of the Concepts of Secularity and Secularism in the Arab-Islamicate World(s): Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion of Syria

Religions, 2023
This paper critically discusses the pioneering formulation of secularity and secularism in the Arab-Islamicate world(s) found in Butrus al-Bustani’s The Clarion of Syria (1860–1861).
Housamedden Darwish
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