The argument is concerned with the contribution of fiction to the secularisation of religion and, in particular, with the development in fiction of a secular religious discourse. The literary ...

In his 2007 book A Secular Age, Canadian philosopher Charles Tylor writes that three categories of secularism have evolved since the proper emergence of the idea —mainly from the 18th century onwards.

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 ...

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 ...

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 secularization and economic growth. The ...

If you were smart, you'd leave it nice and vague. "The opinion is everywhere gaining ground that religion is a mere survival from a primitive … age, and its extinction only a matter of time," ...

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University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We have known for decades that secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Finding out why involves ...

Dans tout ce débat autour de la laïcité, on ne peut faire abstraction d’un certain courant fort présent dans la société québécoise et aussi dans les autres sociétés occidentales. Je pense ici au ...

L’Espagne aurait-elle cessé d’être catholique, comme le prédisait l’homme politique Manuel Azaña Díaz dès 1931 ? Tandis que son voisin portugais est encore peu touché par la sécularisation du Vieux ...