Secularism

Newadvent.org Barry Kosmin of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture breaks modern secularism into two types: hard and soft secularism.

At the same time, one significant stream of secularism has come from religious minorities who see governmental and political secularism as integral to preserving equal rights.

Former party chief Rahul Gandhi said the legacy of the country’s first Prime Minister continues to serve as a beacon for the idea of India and for values such as secularism, freedom and democracy.

Gupta further said that Bali worked for strengthening the fabric of secularism and brotherhood in the State of J&K.

He had sweetly struck down the discourse of Nehruvian secularism and brought the BJP to the centre of Indian politics.

It comes as Francis attempts to galvanise young Catholics at a time when secularism and priest paedophilia scandals cause some to abandon pews in Europe.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan accused the BJP-ruled Centre of 'undoing' the foundations of the nation's democracy and called for a 'new resistance' to protect secularism, democracy and the Constitution.

Legault's government had pre-emptively invoked the notwithstanding clause on the Quebec secularism law, known as Bill 21, which forbids some public servants in positions of authority from wearing religious symbols on the job.

NIA investigations have revealed that the ISIS-inspired agent provocateurs were engaged in the propagation of Khilafat ideology, which is inimical to India’s constitutionally established principles of secularism and democracy.

Secularism in Bangladesh thus attained the character of outright anti-Islamism.

Senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said religious and social harmony, secularism and tolerance are in India's DNA and asserted that it is the only country where believers of almost all religions live peacefully.

The bogey of ‘secularism’ is often used to suppress the racial question.

They also lie, as you say, in France’s “dogmatic insistence on racial assimilation, secularism and one-size-fits-all identity”, which has become even more strident since the threat of Islamism from the 1990s.

For his part, Modi has projected himself as a free marketeer opposed to socialism—although he has maintained, if not enhanced, preexisting welfare programs—and has little time for secularism.

Karunanidhi’s stance on secularism was firm.

Regardless of this agenda, the dramatic pre-election announcement of the Rules under the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 as the fulfilment of a poll promise furthers the resolve of the government to undermine IndiaтАЩs constitutional secularism.

Since its birth, the modern public education system has been a seedbed of naturalistic secularism.

That which is not based on dharma is unacceptable and therefore secularism was fatally flawed.

The Awami League, once seen as a bastion of secularism, has increasingly adopted autocratic measures to maintain power.

The FFR affirmed its “unwavering commitment to diversity, inclusion and secularism”.