Atheists are distrusted in societies with religious majorities. However, relatively little is known about the underlying reasons for this phenomenon. Previous evidence suggests that distrust of atheists is in part the result of believers thinking that being under supernatural surveillance by a watchful God underlies moral behavior. However, secular rule of law, including institutions such as po...

Ethics is a concept used by people in everyday life. Apart from ethics existing in the wider social environment (secular ethics), another form of ethics found in a specific environment has been supported, that of Christian Ethics. While secular ethics has been studied quite intensely through a variety of theories, the issue of Christian Ethics especially within the framework of Orthodox Church ...

In the inner solar system, the planets' orbits evolve chaotically, driven primarily by secular chaos. Mercury has a particularly chaotic orbit and is in danger of being lost within a few billion years. Just as secular chaos is reorganizing the solar system today, so it has likely helped organize it in the past. We suggest that extrasolar planetary systems are also organized to a large extent by...

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...

We consider the characteristic polynomials of random unitary matrices U drawn from various circular ensembles. In particular, the statistics of the coefficients of these polynomials are studied. The variances of these “secular coefficients” are given explicitly for arbitrary dimension and continued analytically to arbitrary values of the level repulsion exponent β. The latter secular coefficien...

secular ethics – which is known as the de-religionized, human, or conventional ethics – contrasts the religious and divine ethics. its roots are in humanistic thought that adapts itself to the needs and the direction of the society. therefore, the contraction and dilation of secular ethics will be unstable, gradual, and accidental. moreover, it is not possible to expect this thought system to p...

We perform numerical simulations to study the secular orbital evolution and dynamical structure in the HD 69830 planetary system with the best-fit orbital solutions by Lovis and coworkers (2006). In the simulations, we show that the triplet Neptunian system can be stable at least for 2 Gyr and the stability would not be greatly influenced even if we vary the planetary masses from Neptune-mass t...

A numerical N–body integration of the asteroid (4660) Nereus over 3.5 Myr shows the presence of the Kozai resonance and two secular resonances inside a horseshoe orbit with Venus. This 1/1 mean motion resonance with Venus remains stable during the whole time span though a secular increase of the orbital inclination of the small body occurs due to the overlapping of two secular resonances, namel...

We derive a secular theory for Trojan-type motion in the framework of the restricted three-body problem, which is valid inside the entire regular coorbital region. We show that under certain conditions it is possible to extend the theory to include the secular perturbations from additional bodies and an oblate central mass. We are then able to predict the location of linear secular resonances w...

This essay argues that if social justice is to prevail in our world, we must understand the post-secular nature of our globalized society as a prerequisite for moving beyond “might is right” to national and international relations that heed all voices towards evidence-based interaction. The authors post-secular world and postmetaphysical world-orientation requires of us complementary learning p...