On October 31, Ashok Swain, an Indian-origin professor of peace and conflict at Uppsala University in Sweden, wrote in a tweet, “India is like the Middle East & North Africa—consti­tu­tionally secular ...

The concept of secularism among Arabs and Muslims has been the subject of much debate since the emergence of Sunni and Shiite Islamic “sahwa” (awakening). The Muslim Brotherhood has played a ...

If it is true that Australia does the secular state in a unique and inclusive manner, then this approach is fatally flawed and has proven to be a miserable failure. In September of 2010, Talal Asad, ...

A new bill proposes closing prayer spaces at universities, reigniting questions about the role of religion in public spaces.

Given that secularism had not been defined in the Constitution and did not form part of the preamble until the 1970s, given that the meaning Nehru allotted to the concept was not codified in law, and ...

Presiding over a Christmas event on Saturday, Stalin hailed the yeoman services of Sarah Tucker, a Christian missionary of ...

Men praying at the Islamic Cultural Center of Courcouronnes in Evry, France. Since 1989, the appearance of the hijab (Muslim headscarf) in French public schools has opened the most impassioned debate ...

This article by Samee Alhwash was originally published on The Battleground and is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Whether in the boycott-French-products campaign ...

I think it will be some years before we understand how great a legacy Pope Benedict XVI will be leaving us. Part of that legacy to be especially treasured will be the Pope’s reflections on the dangers ...

Secularism as a modern concept is aligned with the concepts of equality, freedom, and democracy. Secularism anywhere in the world works is the antidote to communalism, which is required to check the ...