Who is more likely to be racist: strongly religious people or strongly secular people? Let’s first consider each group’s basic worldview or belief system concerning the nature of people. According to ...

Scholars seek to reclaim a dirty word: secularism (RNS) A conference at Georgetown University this week focused on cleaning up what many Americans consider a dirty word: secularism. The goal of the ...

“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms…”, said Friedrich Nietzsche. As many as 66 Constitutions make some reference to God in their Preamble. True, Nehru ...

The recent remarks by RSS general secretary Dattatreya Hosabale have reopened a decades-old political and constitutional debate: Should the words 'Socialist' and 'Secular' remain in the Preamble of ...

Talal Asad has conducted extensive research on the phenomenon of religion (and secularism), particularly the religious revival in the Middle East. Professor Asad is the author of Genealogies of ...

Debates about both religion and secularism are entering the British public sphere with increasing frequency – and sometimes vehemence. In the wake of the tragic attacks in Paris, controversy will no ...

Two new surveys were recently published, both showing the same thing: Religious people were more likely to be suspicious and unwelcoming of people who are different, while secular people were more ...