What's missing is that we are Homo duplex, but modern, secular society was built to satisfy our lower, profane selves.

Secular Stagnation Heads South

Secular Stagnation for Free

We shall strengthen pluralism in society for the purpose of reliably guaranteeing freedom of conscience, speech and the press, and of further strengthening the foundations of a secular democratic society based on tolerance and mutual respect.

That Iran was once a secular society, and we had democracy, and this democracy was stolen from us by the American government, by the British government.

The Problem With Secular Stagnation

A single, secular, national Civil Code governing personal status was essential to strengthen equality in society and to help the Government in its implementation of the Convention.

The democratic way of life was a deeply rooted article of faith for over a billion Indians whose nation had a democratic, pluralistic and secular society, an autonomous and impartial judiciary, a vibrant civil society, a free media and independent human rights institutions.

But, of course, our secular religion is technology.

Think of it as a kind of secular church.

Why has religion returned to secular and democratic politics?

They ensure that India remains secular, democratic and pluralistic.

My madness is on a smaller, more secular scale.

But it is Kazakhstan s strong secular tradition, inherited from its Soviet past, and a very large European Christian minority (approximately 40 of its 15.2 million people) that make it a society that the West needs to encourage, given the Islamic arc of instability upon which it sits. Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.

But it is Kazakhstan s strong secular tradition, inherited from its Soviet past, and a very large European Christian minority (approximately 40 of its 15.2 million people) that make it a society that the West needs to encourage, given the Islamic arc of instability upon which it sits. Drawing Kazakhstan westward would help embed this secular tradition.

The second factor is America s pluralistic public sphere, an arena not without religion but with many religions, which are visible and active in civil life as the basis for institutions, publications, and symbols that influence values and conduct. The US is not a secular society it is a religiously pluralistic one with secular legal and political structures.

In his view, States which adopted secular models might run the risk of marginalizing religious minorities, unless those minorities were given appropriate scope for the accommodation of their religious values within the larger society.

There are secular kooks there are smart kooks, dumb kooks.

But the secular minded people can be influenced by that.

The Federal and State Governments are secular in this country.

Why is there such disparity between the secular realm and the sacred?

Gul s wife s headscarf was interpreted as the symbol of darker changes to come. If the First Lady wears a headscarf, maintained the secular minded elite, the whole secular system could be undermined.

The women s movement in Morocco which now bridges secular and religious communities is setting an example of the power of social thought in a traditional society. Re visiting traditional interpretations of Scripture is not the end of the story.

We are a secular country blessed with a large and growing Muslim community.

Complicating the situation further is the division between secular Israelis and the fanatic Orthodox communities whose rejection of the secular state and yearning for a society based on the strictest interpretation of Halacha (Jewish religious law) epitomize a deep seated fear of Arabs and an uncompromising distrust of gentiles. Such communities, which comprise 30 of Jerusalem s population, make the notion of a united, peaceful Jerusalem farfetched, at best.

But compassion is also equally at home in the secular as in the religious.

On the one hand was my mother, a well educated, secular, modern, westernized, Turkish woman.

Kazakhstan is a secular State, and any discrimination against women based on sex is prohibited.

It also stipulates that education offered by the State shall be secular and free of charge.

How to bridge the gap in developing countries between secular, more or less Westernized urban elites and the rural poor is an old question. One solution is to enforce secular modernization by oppressing the poor and their religious organizations.

The armed forces, however, claim a constitutional mandate to protect the Republic s secular traditions. And Turkey s generals have intervened in politics several times to defend Kemalism Atatürk s secular ideology of modernization that pushed Islamic Turkey towards European style liberalism.

The Algerian secularists strategy of exclusion, fraud, cheating, and gerrymandering backfired badly Islamists were perceived as victims, while secularists with some exceptions were cast as unprincipled opportunists. Enforcing a secular constitution before elections does not guarantee a secular outcome.

This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state. Therefore, the recent lack of progress in Turkey s reform process can to a large extent be explained by the EU s behavior.

The second largest group, of nearly 30 million, is the one described as non religious or secular.

This secular non religious vote, if properly mobilized, is nine times as numerous as the Jewish vote.

Other states parties have concluded that the purposes of secular education require some restrictions on forms of dress.

Taking into account the constant aspiration of the two peoples to build democratic, law based and secular States,

Expand parent, community, and local government participation in the development of the curriculum of both religious and secular schools.

The recent assassination of the secular Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has raised the stakes for women there. Belaid was a voice on behalf of women s rights, and the threat of increased political violence will focus on those who advocate secular equality for all Tunisians, including women.

The rights of second and third wives are not covered by secular law. This category of women is aware that secular law cannot protect their rights. The absence of rights forces these women to endure all kinds of violence committed by the husband and his relatives.

Well, one thing to notice is that we do something different when talking about morality especially secular, academic, scientist types.

Society

Society!

Niger society is a society where the man predominates.

By demanding severe punishment for those guilty of war crimes not the Pakistani Army, long gone, but their local collaborators in groups like Jamaat e Islami, Al Badar, Al Shams, and the Razakar irregulars the protesters are also implicitly describing the society in which they wish to live secular, pluralist, and democratic.