The question: What is secularism? What is the relationship between secularism, the state policy; and secularisation, the social process? Most conversations tend to confuse the two, moving from one to ...

Last week the Irish taoiseach, Enda Kenny, openly criticised the Vatican for what he said were attempts to frustrate the Cloyne inquiry into child abuse, thereby launching a row between Ireland and ...

Twenty years ago, during the throes of liturgical reform in the Anglican Church, a caustic (Anglican) critic noted: "Nothing is sacred - nothing in church at least". The liturgical reformers were, of ...

Modern universities have fallen prey to certain forces of secularisation, which have brought about the proliferation of control measures in the form of burgeoning bureaucracies, outcome-based ...

Tribute to victims of the 2016 Dhaka attack. AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.The gruesome Dhaka cafe attack earlier this month has been viewed mostly ...

New research measuring the importance of religion in 109 countries spanning the entire 20th century has reignited an age-old debate around the link between secularisation and economic growth. The ...

Scientists, intellectuals and social scientists expected that the spread of modern science would drive secularisation – that science would be a secularising force. But that simply hasn’t been the case ...

We have known for decades that secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Finding out why involves unpicking a complex knot of cognitive and social factors – an imposing task. So my ...

Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that ...

As a result of migration, the number of Greek Catholics, Orthodox, as well as members of other smaller churches, has increased in Bratislava. When the 2011 census was taking place, pens and printed ...