The four articles that make up this symposium on Tariq Modood’s recent collection, Essays Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019), are based a public conversation research colloquium held at Utrecht University 18 February 2020. In the first article, Modood introduces with statement of his thinking over two decades subjects secularism multiculturalism. This is followed by responses Pooyan Tamimi ...

Abstract This article focuses on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) case law about religious symbols (N=27) from 2001 to 2018, exploring following questions: What discourses does ECtHR employ in cases symbols? How do ECtHR’s evolve time? The data is innovatively analyzed through critical discourse analysis and leads two findings: first, tends endorse ‘Christian secularism,’ considering...

Abstract My article offers commentary about Jacques Berlinerblau's new book Secularism: The Basics .

According to my study, “political secularism” means the separation of political power from religious institutions, while “social is a theory and endeavor eliminate religiosity not only public but also private life, considering it an obsolete way thinking. I examine four case studies based on ethnological fieldwork in Hunza (in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir), Middle Ural (Russia), Transylvania (R...

From our perspective, one clear trend is that OBM appears to be undergoing a period of “secularism” wherein some of its more “sacred” interventions are being questioned. Numbered among these “sacred” traditions are the regular use by OBM practitioners of feedback (Alvero, Bucklin, & Austin, 2001; Balcazar, Hopkins, & Suarez, 1986; Kluger & DiNisi, 1996), goal setting (Fellner & Sulzer-Azaroff, ...

Theories of modernization have assumed that the creation of nation-states involved the breakdown of parochial ethnic boundaries and increasing secularism, all of which resulted in a demographic transition from high to low fertility and mortality. Recent experiences suggests, however, that in some circumstances nation-states may be highly unstable as ethnic minorities assert their rights to self...