Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practic...

In order to avoid both religious intolerance and religious indifference, we need to develop a positive notion of an open laicity or secularity that permits us to respect our religiously plural as well as secular contemporary situation. Open laicity or secularity is the practical and political consequence of a Protestant theology and spirituality. It represents a critical answer to the disaster ...

The issue of modernity that is crucial today the development secularism in various fields. One main things to highlight popularity secularism, which has a worldview contrary Muslims. It was Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas who most vocal voicing his criticism and proposing solutions he offered form concept Islamization Present Day Knowledge. research method used by author descriptive analysis anal...

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...

Abstract Berlinerblau’s latest work, Secularism: The Basics , is a thoughtful, insightful, brilliant, and accessible introduction to political secularism—full of global examples, relevant controversies, ten core principles that underly the entire secularist phenomenon.

The need to re-examine established ways of thinking about secularism and its relationship to feminism has arisen in the context of the confluence of a number of developments including: the increasing dominance of the ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis; the expansion of postmodern critiques of Enlightenment rationality to encompass questions of religion; and sustained critiques of the ‘secularizati...