secularism
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈsɛkjʊlərɪzəm/
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secularismo
- In a democracy, secularism ensures that government decisions are made without influence from religious institutions.
- Indian secularism
- secularism and democracy
- Turkish secularism
And I think we need to embrace as a country secularism.
- And I think we need to embrace as a country secularism.
- So there's a, there's a, a societal wide effect of the lack of secularism.
- The West is built on secularism, it's built on secular laws, and it's built on nation states.
- Like the, the, all of the social progression that you can think of has has coincided with secularism.
- Content Secular, you know, secularism doesn't have content.
- It says this secularism isn't really objective.
- And so that's what I've sort of been campaigning on, issues around Islam, Islamism, women's rights, secularism, and of course, refugee rights.
- That and that that can drive people crazy, which is exactly what is happening between affluence and secularism.
- I'm not sure that the meaning crisis that we're in is strictly due to or related to secularism.
- But at the end of the day, the autopsy on all of mega, in my opinion, is going to be secularism.
Examples
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Why then, he wonders, should Muslims look to secularism for inspiration?
Academic text (1996) -
The principles of secularism promote equality by removing religious biases from public policies.
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So I think perhaps secularism has a small role to play.
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The West is built on secularism, it's built on secular laws, and it's built on nation states.
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Among these foreign imports, secularism seems to represent the greatest danger.
Academic text (1996) -
Nationalism has to be connected to secularism to be truly modern.
Academic text (1996) -
Basically, when we look at secularism in the Middle East, it did not bring forth women's rights.
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Democracy, the market, and secularism strengthen the nation and reinforce its current hegemony.
Academic text (1992) -
Support for secularism also weakens their influence among the more traditional or devout segments of Syrian society.
Academic text (2012) -
Not only were the revolutions identified with secularism and anti-clericalism, but the counterrevolutions were identified with religion.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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A state of being not connected to religion
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9.9
Opposition to religious leaders having power in public and political life
Keeping religion separate from government and places like schools
Support for keeping government and religion apart
Antonyms
How Secular
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Morphology
Etymology
Secularism comes from the Latin root saeculum, which meant 'age' or 'the world', and from the adjective secular meaning 'of this world' rather than 'religious'. So, secularism is the idea of keeping public life and government in the 'non-religious' world, not under religious control.