This study proposes and explores a new fertility determinant: societal secularism. Using country-level data from multiple sources ( n = 181) multilevel 58 countries in the World Values Survey 83,301), author documents strong negative relationship between secularism both rates individual-level behavior. Secularism, even small amounts, is associated with population stagnation or decline absent su...

The aim of this paper is to assess the Catholic Church’s formula for adaptation Modernity from perspectives contemporary models Secularism. For purpose, it will use typology Jacques Berlinerblau, with five Secularism (Separationism, Disestablishment, Laïcité, Accommodationism, and Atheistic Secularism). some these models, be found—to different extents—agreeable, while other regard as hardly acc...

this paper deals with the philosophical aspects of nationalism and pan-islamism in view of dr. muhammad iqbal, a great poet and philosopher of sub-continent. the paper examines in an analytical way, how iqbal’s concept of nationalism is different from western brand of nationalism and coincided with jamal-u-din afghani’s ideal of pan-islamism. the paper discusses how iqbal reconciled his ideal w...

Spring | Summer 2010 121 This article analyzes the dynamics of development, democracy, and conflict in Georgia, focusing on variation in state capacity, political institutions and varieties of nationalism. Whereas Georgia’s ethnic nationalism substituted for political institutions in the 1990s, the state’s enhanced administrative capacities after 2003 inhibited it from returning to ethnic natio...

This article examines the Puja Tri Sandhya, a Balinese Hindu prayer that has been broadcast into soundscape of Bali since 2001. By charting development prayer, this paper summarizes religious politics post-independence Indonesia, which called for to adopt Sandhya as condition legitimacy in new nation. The is likened “call prayer” and compared Muslim Christian soundings religion archipelago asse...

Abstract Political secularism secures the disestablishment of religion by government. Religions sense an undemocratic power grab, and hence demand secularism. The obvious options for political are few, to either promote populist majoritarianism, and/or control one or another branch in age secularization no less momentous. Berlinerblau’s book Secularism: Basics should be widely read as a clarion...

Herder is often considered a cultural nationalist rather than a political nationalist. Although there is a measure of truth in this assessment, it overlooks the important passages in Herder’s writings where he did make political claims about the nation. The article explores the basis of these claims, and tries to articulate what is theoretically interesting and plausible in Herder’s account. He...

"Freethinkers," including both atheists and secular humanists, have always been a minority in American society--and not a very popular one. There are still laws in several states preventing non-theists from holding office. Just as evangelical Protestants up until one hundred years ago held a largely optimistic view of the future and the end times (known as postmillennialism), secular humanists ...