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Ontario and New Brunswick francophones have spoken out against Québec abolishing English school boards, fearing this could set a negative precedent for French language education rights across Canada.
In recent years Bangladesh has seen an increase in attacks on religious minorities. A scholar explains how certain extreme views on how Islam is to be followed are taking center stage in the country.
Lebanon’s 1989 peace deal ended a civil war by sharing political power between religious factions. That created a society profoundly divided by religion – something today’s protesters hope to change.
The Bloc Québécois was written off as politically dead before it aligned itself with the CAQ government’s law on secularism. Now it’s moved into third place in Parliament in a stunning comeback.
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster may seem to be a joke, but it highlights some real contradictions in secular societies.
There’s been a reversal of power between religious and secular sides of American culture. The Supreme Court is now at the center of that shift.
Neither French nor American, Senegalese secularism stands midway between these two models
Many Canadians are puzzled by Québec’s law banning some civil servants from wearing religious symbols. A Québec sociologist explains the law is rooted in the province’s troubled history with religion.
While few would deny secularism and religious neutrality are legitimate goals, they don’t justify Bill 21’s undue restriction of minority rights.
The bonhomie between Narendra Modi and Binyamin Netanyahu is rooted in the admiration of generations of Hindu nationalists for Israel.
An evolutionary biologist makes the case that there’s no reconciling science and religion. In the search for truth, one tests hypotheses while the other relies on faith.
For decades, Bangladesh had a very vibrant – and highly political – rock scene. But the genre is struggling to survive the country’s crackdown on dissent and increasing Islamic conservatism.
Québec is pushing to ban public servants from wearing religious garb even as the crucifix hangs in its legislature. It’s ironic and hypocritical for a province that prides itself on secularism.
The enquiry into sacredness is not over, it’s just beginning for the 21st century, and in wildly disparate modes and places. In music, Nick Cave, Hozier and Dr G. Yunupingu have led the way.
Secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Now new research shows that it was secularisation which came first.
Nearly 40 percent of voters in Costa Rica supported an anti-gay evangelical for president. Maybe progressive Costa Rica is more like its troubled neighboring countries than it once seemed.
While France and the US both guarantee individual religious freedom, the two nations’ approach to religion in the public sphere and the separation between church and state are profoundly different.
A Pakistani humanist has been denied asylum in Britain because he couldn’t identify Plato or Aristole. The state is illiterate when it comes to atheism.
Many think that violence is central to religion, but some scholars argue it’s meaningless to single out religion rather than socio-economic factors when assessing violent acts.
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Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies, Pitzer College
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Anthropologist & Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing Communication, Emerson College
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PhD Candidate (Theology and Religious Studies), King's College London
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Research Fellow, University of Antwerp (Belgium) and University of the Free State (South Africa), University of the Free State
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Concordia University of Edmonton
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Senior Lecturer in Politics, King's College London
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor of Political Science, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Professor of Sociology of Religion, Coventry University
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Professor of International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah
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Research Fellow, Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Reader in French Studies, University of Warwick