Muslims, Catholics, and the Secular State

Moderate Islam and Secularist Opposition in Turkey: implications for the world, Muslims and secular democracy

Developing an argument based in theories of democratic consolidation and religious competition, and discussing the reasons for the secularist opposition to the government, this article analyses how government by a party rooted in moderate Islamism may affect Turkey’s peculiar secular democracy, development and external relations and how Muslims in the world relate to modernization and democracy...

Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal follow, discussing an affront to personal integrity, confronting intellectual apartheid and analys...

Legal centralization and the birth of the secular state

0147-5967/$ see front matter 2013 Association for Comparative Economic Studies Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jce.2013.08.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (N.D. Johnson), [email protected] (M. Koyama). 1 See for instance Finke (1991) and Nussbaum (2008) on the First Amendment and Kamen (1967), Head (1998), Laursen (1999),...

Non-Catholics and Our Code

Catholics for choice.

To cite: Quilliam S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:74–75. WHO ARE YOU? Catholics for Choice was founded in 1973 to serve as a voice for Catholics who believe that the Catholic tradition supports women’s and men’s moral and legal right to follow their consciences in matters of sexuality and reproductive health. We promote public policies that advance sexual and reproductive health ethic...