Secularism may encapsulate anti-clericalism, atheism, naturalism, non-sectarianism, neutrality on topics of religion, or antireligion. [2] As a philosophy, secularism seeks to interpret life based on principles derived solely from the material world, without recourse to religion.

2019年8月22日 · ‘The case against secularism’ considers some of the opponents to secularism, including theocracies, Islamic states, states with established churches, and Communist states. Opponents of secularism in the age when it was hypothetical made arguments to defend the religious status quo.

2008年1月17日 · The leitmotif here is the issue of the mutual impositions which religious and secular citizens must endure with respect to the “public deployment of reason” within a democracy. Drawing on ideas prefigured by John Rawls in the last years of his life, Habermas goes far beyond the militantly laicist or secularist self-understanding long ...

Anti-secularism is a political ideology that opposes secularism, the principle of separation of the government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries.

In contrast to French secularism (based on historic opposition to a powerful church), and Turkish secularism (used as a symbol of modernity), secularism in the United States was driven by high levels of religious pluralism and diversity.

2008年4月19日 · The difference between institutional secularism and the secular as a conditional domain of interrogation is marked by an epistemological chasm. Then there is the issue of secularism’s shaping of subjectivities as such, its “attendant anthropology of the subject.”

Anti-secularism is by no means as coherent a political pro- gramme or doctrine as multiculturalism but it has attained formid- able resonance as the name of an intellectual impulse on issues of minority equality, statehood and as a credible voice against reli- gious nationalism and communal violence. Since it is so nebulous, contested and ...

A marked feature of the contemporary U.S. constitutional landscape is the campaign by an Evangelical-Catholic coalition against the idea of secularism, understood by this alliance to mean the exclusion of religion from the state and its progressive marginalization from social life.

as “anti-secularism”. Like an argument given in the Constituent Assembly, advocates of anti-secularism are not opposed to secularism per se. What they are opposed to is the notion of secularism which suggests separation between religion and the state. They are critical of both communal-fundamentalist (Hindutva) and secularists.

2024年3月4日 · Anti-secularism critiques the Western notion of separating religion and state, arguing it is unsuitable for India's religious society. Advocates like Bhikhu Parekh, T.N. Madan, and Ashis Nandy emphasize Indian traditions of tolerance and the principle of equal respect for all religions (sarva dharma sambhava).