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People of any religious denomination can support a secular society, or adopt the principles of secularism, although secularist identity is often associated with non-religious individuals such as atheists. [5] Political secularism encompasses the schools of thought in secularism that consider the regulation of religion by a secular state. [6]
A secular religion is a communal belief system that often rejects or neglects the metaphysical aspects of the supernatural, commonly associated with traditional religion, instead placing typical religious qualities in earthly, or material, entities.
Historically, the word secular was not related or linked to religion, but was a freestanding term in Latin that would relate to any mundane endeavour. [12] However, the term, saecula saeculorum (saeculōrum being the genitive plural of saeculum) as found in the New Testament in the Vulgate translation (c. 410) of the original Koine Greek phrase εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν ...
A secular state is an idea pertaining to secularity, whereby a state is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion. [1] A secular state claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion , and claims to avoid preferential treatment for a citizen based on their religious ...
According to reports from the WIN/Gallup International's (WIN/GIA) four global polls: in 2005, 77% were a religious person and 4% were "convinced atheists"; in 2012, 23% were not a religious person and 13% were "convinced atheists"; [2] in 2015, 22% were not a religious person and 11% were "convinced atheists"; [3] and in 2017, 25% were not a ...
Secular" is a part of the Christian church's history, which even has secular clergy since the medieval period. [6] [7] [8] Furthermore, secular and religious entities were not separated in the medieval period, but coexisted and interacted naturally.
Clayton Crockett (ed.), Secular Theology: American Radical Theological Thought (2001), ISBN 0-415-25052-8; Amos Funkenstein, "Secular Theology" in the Modern Age (1986) John Warwick Montgomery, The shape of the past: A Christian response to secular philosophies of history (1975) Wolfhart Pannenberg, Christianity in a Secularized World, (1989).
The Devil and Secular Humanism: The Children of the Enlightenment (1990) – a favorable account; Toumey, Christopher P. "Evolution and secular humanism", Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Summer 1993, Vol. 61 Issue 2, pp. 275–301, focused on fundamentalist attacks. Zuckerman, Phil; Shook, John R. (2017). The Oxford handbook of ...