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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cet article fait partie du dossier sur le suicide des prêtres. (Cf. le sommaire en pied de page). Jean-François Noël est prêtre du diocèse d’Aix-en-Provence et psychanalyste (1). Il a quitté une ...

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 ...

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 ...

En l’an 1956, à peine sorti du long sommeil – toutefois bien agité – de la colonisation, mon pays donnait à la génération de l’ado que j’étais un formidable rêve. Et un rêve éveillé, cette fois ! Nous ...