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The secular movement refers to a social and political trend in the United States, [1] beginning in the early years of the 20th century, with the founding of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism in 1925 and the American Humanist Association in 1941, in which atheists, agnostics, secular humanists, freethinkers, and other nonreligious and nontheistic Americans have grown in ...
Mattie A. Freeman (9 August 1839 [1] – 7 September 1901) [2] [3] was an American freethinker, abolitionist, writer, and lecturer. [1] She became well known as a secularist speaker, [4] was corresponding secretary of the American Secular Union, [5] and was described by a correspondent of The Truth Seeker as a "feminine Ingersoll". [6]
Principled Distance is a new model of secularism given by Rajeev Bhargava. The separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries. He says that Indian secularism did not erect a strict wall of separation, but proposed a 'principled distance' between religion ...
It can be seen by many of the organizations (NGOs) for secularism that they prefer to define secularism as the common ground for all life stance groups, religious or atheistic, to thrive in a society that honours freedom of speech and conscience. An example of that is the National Secular Society in the UK. This is a common understanding of ...
Secularism concerns aiming for a separation of church and state, irrespective of one's own religion or lack thereof. Not to be confused with secularization which refers to the historical process in which religion loses social and cultural significance.
Today, criticism is directed against the assertion that religion has become less important in the modern age. Critics point to developments in South Korea, Russia and the USA. The combination of institutional religion with other interests, such as economic or political interests, leads to the strengthening of these religions in their respective ...
Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, ' worldly ' or ' of a generation '), is the state of being unrelated or neutral in regards to religion. The origins of secularity can be traced to the Bible itself. The concept was fleshed out through Christian history into the modern era. [1] In the Middle Ages, there were even ...
Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries.One manifestation of secularism is asserting the right to be free from religious rule and teachings, or, in a state declared to be neutral on matters of belief, from the imposition by government of religion or religious ...