To establish an all-encompassing and fair society, efforts must be directed towards appreciating and honoring various knowledge forms.
A ‘secular religion’ could become a dominant religion in the 21st century, alongside established religions.
Tariq Modood talks about the relationship between secularism and multiculturalism, as well as free speech and the role of political satire.
The legacy of strict state control of religion combined with the violent crackdown on Islamic movements impacted the politics of state building after the revolution.
By emphasising secular reforms and de-emphasising communally specific attitudes and policy, the BJP seeks to present India as an open marketplace for the new middle class
International law is premised on a hierarchical organizing of cultures, and is therefore critically unstable because its own biases undermine its claims to universality.
The modern international human rights regime offers an alternative to secularism because it establishes standards for both state neutrality and engagement with religion.
Secularisation theory wrongly predicted religion’s death, yet this theory is still a crucial source of insight on the nature of religion’s opposition in world politics.
Secular liberalism has become an influential, even dominant, worldview among sections of the intellectual class in many Western societies.
The pervasive religious aspects of Romanticism demonstrate the failure of previous theories of secularisation. Modernity has never been a monolithic intellectual.
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