On the Secular Requirement

It is often claimed that a democratic state ought to be secular, a claim labeled here as the secular requirement. The claim is regularly treated as axiomatic by scholars and intellectuals. In the present paper, the secular requirement is challenged, and an extensive critique of the five most frequen...

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Main Author: Agnafors, Marcus (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2014
In: Journal of law, religion and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 93-123
Further subjects:B Secularism democracy religion and state secular state secular requirement
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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