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George Jacob Holyoake (13 April 1817 – 22 January 1906) was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 [1] and "jingoism" in 1878. [2]
The purposes and arguments in support of secularism vary widely, ranging from assertions that it is a crucial element of modernization, or that religion and traditional values are backward and divisive, to the claim that it is the only guarantor of free religious exercise.
Phil Zuckerman's analysis finds differing levels of atheists and agnostics in countries around the world [17]. Phil Zuckerman is the author of seven books, including The Nonreligious [18], co-authored with Luke Galen and Frank Pasquale; Living the Secular Life; [19] Faith No More; [20] Society without God; [21] Invitation to the Sociology of Religion; [22] What it Means to be Moral; [23] and ...
On the other hand, the Constitution of India defines secularism looking at the social implication of the religious practice. The article 25 of the constitution guarantees freedom of conscience and free profession, practice and propagation of religion subject to public order, morality, health and Fundamental Rights.
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 ...
Robert Montgomery: Religious views cannot be used by the government as a justification for government action.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Secularism in the United States (8 C, 10 P) Pages in category "Secularism in North America"
Religious secularists take a middle path on the fraught debate over the role of religion in American society.