The End of Secularism?

The first is secular dictatorship.

Turkey s Secular Fundamentalist Threat

It's a victory for secular democracy in India.

The secular establishment argues that the AKP s moderation thus far reflects the checks and balances implied by secularist control of the presidency.

Liberté Conditionnelle explains

Egyptians are drafting their very own secular law on Twitter.

As with a secular dictatorship, Islamic dictatorship is ugly and destructive.

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

Aggressive secularists and extremists feed off each other.

Massive public demonstrations were held in Istanbul to support Turkey s Kemalist secular tradition.

The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as well as secular works.

The debate between religious fundamentalism and secular democracy is not a new one on the subcontinent.

Those attitudes and dispositions were transferred from religious texts to secular forms of education.

Eastern Asia The eastern Asia legal tradition reflects a unique blend of secular and religious influences.

Some of these values are rooted in a kind of secular Christianity, and others in the Enlightenment s revolutionary beliefs about human rights, equality, the French language, secular schooling, and the idea that the state is responsible for the common interest and application of republican principles.

Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.

In the event of an Islamist political awakening, the army s allegiances are not guaranteed.

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It is also used to distinguish between religious authority (for example Canon law) and secular authority.

Its driving ideological force was a European inspired secular nationalism, which strove for political and social modernization through top down government action.

AB I would say that there are many, many gaps in secular life and these can be plugged.

Many non government organizations, both secular and religious, also opposed the resolution.

Proposing secularism the historic approach of Western liberals is political suicide.

Today s trade and currency battles would then become a Kulturkampf.

In fact, secularism in Senegal resembles that in India more than anywhere else.

Yet the comparison with what the French call laicité is misleading.

The differences between French and Turkish secularism can be put in even sharper comparative perspective.

Indeed, the Muslim Brotherhood government and the secular opposition both complained about America s relationship with the other.

After the revolution, secularism and the place of Islam have been the centre of heated debates on social media platforms and Tunisian blogs.

The difference between what the French call laicité and secularism is more than a linguistic nuance for Turkey, which adopted its Kemalist system not long after France entrenched its secular republic.

The secular opposition s accession to power on the back of a tank might feed the Islamists rage for years to come.

A factor that promoted the spread of secularism was the Church's inability to offer assistance against the Black Death.

The Chinuch Atzmai schools focus almost entirely on Torah study and offer very little in terms of secular subjects.

Its trade and secular administrative reforms built a prosperous economy for more than 80 years.

He said that the 59th government was sensitive about the secular, democratic, social, and lawful state.

Situated figuratively between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islam, and democracy and tyranny, Turkey also is an actual physical bridge between East and West.

The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood and its offshoots has come at the expense of secular Arab nationalism and the military dictatorships that supported it.

Baathism was dictatorial and oppressive often brutally so but it protected minorities and the secular elites.

Secularism is also associated with military regimes, such as those in Turkey and Algeria.

Gul s wife s headscarf was interpreted as the symbol of darker changes to come.

That this will no longer do in a more emancipated world is not because secularization has destroyed people s sense of morality.

She was also a staunch secularist who established a foundation to provide scholarships to young girls so they could attend school.

But, far from being characterized by secularization, our age has witnessed vast eruptions of religious passion.

On the surface, the fight appears to represent two different visions of modern Turkey, secular versus religious, democratic versus authoritarian.