The argument is concerned with the contribution of fiction to the secularisation of religion and, in particular, with the development in fiction of a secular religious discourse. The literary ...

The question: is Europe's future Christian? In a little-noticed speech last year the head of the Vatican's department for interfaith contacts, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, thanked Muslims for bringing ...

In his 2007 book A Secular Age, Canadian philosopher Charles Tylor writes that three categories of secularism have evolved since the proper emergence of the idea —mainly from the 18th century onwards.

Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that ...

Peut-on encore dire quelque chose de novateur sur la sécularisation, la déchristianisation, la fin du religieux ? Après des milliers de travaux et des centaines de théorisations, cela semble délicat.

If you were smart, you'd leave it nice and vague. "The opinion is everywhere gaining ground that religion is a mere survival from a primitive … age, and its extinction only a matter of time," ...

En deux mois à peine, le monde a changé de visage suite à l'incroyable « tsunami des peuples » qui déferle sur le monde arabe. Cette dynamique insurrectionnelle et révolutionnaire est probablement ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We have known for decades that secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Finding out why involves ...

In view of the Constitution of 1973 and the many authoritative pronouncements of our judiciary regarding Pakistan’s status as an Islamic state, it is logical to question whether secularisation of ...

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