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Secularism and the Political Party: When Movements Organise
Secular political parties have tried to institutionalise the separation of religion and state — with mixed, instructive results.
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Secularism and the Calendar: Whose Year Does the State Keep?
Public calendars embed religious assumptions so deeply that most citizens never notice them — and secularism has yet to settle what fairness requires.
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Secularism and the Workplace: Accommodation Without Privilege
When employees request religious exemptions at work, secular legal frameworks must balance genuine accommodation against fairness to everyone else.
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Secularism and the Census: How States Count Religion
When governments ask citizens about religion, the question is never neutral — the design of the question shapes what the data can and cannot tell us.
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Secularism and the Public University: Where Neutrality Gets Tested
Public universities claim institutional neutrality on religion, but funding decisions, campus speech, and curriculum design reveal how hard that neutrality is to hold.
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Secularism and the Recognition of New Religions
When the state must decide what counts as a religion, it faces a problem that secular neutrality alone cannot solve.
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Secularism and the Dying: End-of-Life Law in a Religious Society
When the state sets the rules around dying, religious assumptions often shape the law in ways that harm those with no faith commitments at all.
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Secularism and the Legal Status of Religious Divorce
When religious tribunals govern marriage dissolution, secular states face a genuine tension between autonomy, equality, and non-establishment.
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Church–State Separation and Democratic Values
Why keeping religious authority out of government is foundational to pluralist democracy — and protective of faith itself.
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Building an Ethical Framework Without Religion
Secular ethics isn't a vacuum. It's a system built from reason, empathy, and the social contract — and it underwrites much of modern law.
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Secularism and the Oath: When the State Asks You to Swear
Oaths of office and legal testimony still carry religious language in many democracies. What does that reveal about secular commitments?
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Secularism and the Education of Religious Minorities
When secular states design public school curricula, they face a genuine tension between neutrality and the claims of minority religious communities.
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Secular Chaplaincy: What Nonreligious Pastoral Care Looks Like
Hospitals, prisons, and militaries increasingly employ secular chaplains. What they do challenges assumptions about what pastoral care requires.
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Secularism and the Funding of Faith: Where the Line Falls
When public money flows to religious organizations, secularism is tested in its most concrete form. The debates are harder than they look.
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Secularism as a Procedural Value, Not a Metaphysical One
Secularism is often treated as a philosophical worldview. It works better understood as a set of institutional procedures that benefit everyone.
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Secularism in Muslim-Majority Democracies: A Contested History
Turkey, Tunisia, and Indonesia show that secular governance in Muslim-majority states follows no single path and resists easy Western narratives.
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How Secular Institutions Handle Sacred Symbols in Public Spaces
When governments display religious symbols, courts and legislatures must decide what counts as harm and who gets to say so.
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