Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal f...

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Main Author: Watson, Brenda 1935- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2015]
In: Religions
Year: 2015, Volume: 6, Issue: 4, Pages: 1457-1470
Further subjects:B personal integrity
B secularist
B accepting uncertainty
B religious reform
B intellectual apartheid
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