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Nigeria and the quest for a secular state: The way forward

Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural Studies
The persistent influence of religion on Nigeria’s politics continues to cast aspersions on the state’s secularism. Nigeria is religiously pluralistic with adherents of Christianity and Islam differing on the notion of secularism.
Wendy Chinonyerem Benaiah, Oluwanifemi Pelumi Adeyemo   +1 more
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Desacralizing Secularism

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1995
No Muslim endeavor to face the intellectual challenge of the western tradition can afford to ignore the critical discourse of postmodernism or fail to recognize the Nietzschean claim about truth's complicity with power.
Parvez Manzoor
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The challenge of secularism to religion: A South African Christian perspective [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
Secularism worldwide poses great challenges to religion. It is as if the gates are open to reject religion. Secularism in many ways challenges the truth, morality, political power and social value provided by religions in general terms.
Pieter Verster
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Secularism, secularism, godlessness: theological vision of the problem.

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 2013
The religious crisis experienced by the present mankind is neither the first nor the last in its history. But it looks more sharp, more general, and above all - deeper, because it reaches the very roots of religion, God.
Ivan Ortynskyy
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Old Wine in a New Bottle: Navigating Religion and Politics in Turkiye

Religions
While there is a large body of literature on different models of secularism and religion and politics, relatively scarce attention has been devoted to the experimentation of the moderate secularism model in authoritarian and Muslim-majority countries ...
Laçin İdil Öztığ, Umut Can Adısönmez   +1 more
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“Secularism” or “no-secularism”? A complex case of Bangladesh

Cogent Social Sciences, 2021
The incidents (in 2017) of changing the secular content of textbooks and removing a sculpture from the Supreme Court premises in Bangladesh raise a question among people who are sympathetic to secularism that Bangladesh is moving towards a theological ...
Abdul Wohab
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Challenging Secularism: Considering Islam and State in Indonesia

Tsaqafah, 2010
This paper discussed the encounter of Indonesian Muslims toward the idea of secularism. Secularism since its rise in Europe in the 18th century has spread all over the world. Supporters of secularism have assumed that secularism is undeniable.
Zaenal Muttaqin
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Secularism and Its Discontents: The Moor’s Last Sigh and Riot [PDF]

, 2016
The recurrent theme of dropping frontiers in a world which has become increasingly heterogeneous but intolerant is the leitmotif of Sashi Tharoor’s Riot and Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh.
Pillai, Swarnavel Eswaran
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
wiley   +1 more source

Book review: Questioning secularism: Islam, sovereignty, and the rule of law in modern Egypt [PDF]

, 2013
"Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, And The Rule Of Law In Modern Egypt." Hussein Ali Agrama. University of Chicago Press. November 2012. --- The central questions of the Arab uprisings—what is the appropriate relationship between religion and ...
Mullin, Corinna
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