(RNS) — At its core, secularism is an approach to governance, writes Jacques Berlinerblau in his new book ‘Secularism: The Basics.’ And critically, it is one many religious people, not just atheists ...

Article 20 of Japan’s constitution, written in 1946, states the following: “Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor ...

Injured publisher Ahmed Rahim Tutul is carried on a stretcher in Dhaka, Bangladesh, last Saturday. (A.M. Ahad/ASSOCIATED PRESS) Yasmine Bahrani is a professor of journalism at American University in ...

Danny Akin, Southern Baptist leader, says Americans should respect ‘nones,’ the nation’s fastest growing ‘religious’ group. A campaign dedicated to eliminating discrimination against secular people ...

“I’m done waiting for mainstream media to cover nonreligious people and secular issues fairly and accurately,” says Sarah Levin, a woman who wears a number of hats in the institutional secular world. ...

Britain is in the midst of a heated debate on the role of religion in public life, with parties split into those who believe faith plays too big a role and those who feel the country is being taken ...

Craig Calhoun received funding from the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education for a discussion paper, Religion and Higher Education in Britain, on the themes raised in this article. Tariq Modood ...

THE coexistence of the “godly” and the “godless” of traditional piety and modern secularism has been a characteristic of Western civilization since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rise ...

Tolerance, openness and secularism are the first steps towards economic prosperity, according to new research. Since the Enlightenment began in the eighteenth century, many societies around the world ...