secularist
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- noun
- /ˈsɛkjʊlərɪst/
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- As a secularist, she believes that religion should not influence government decisions.
- secularist and traditionalist
- liberal secularist
- thoroughgoing secularist
I called them liberal Protestant secularists.
- I called them liberal Protestant secularists.
- And they have many laws that, you know, or like, say Bangladesh, for example, like they are secularists in many ways.
- I also believe that this is what the Islamists have understood better about Tunisian society than the secularists.
Examples
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During the election campaign, they promised to ease some of the draconian secularist policies of their predecessors.
Academic text (2000) -
The question is, how are Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, secularists going to engage one another?
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What's the secularist response to those?
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The problem is rooted in the secularist habits of thought pervasive within the U.S. foreign policy community.
Academic text (2008) -
The Turkish military, which has been the staunchest defender of secularist principles, led the opposition to Welfare's policies.
Academic text (2000) -
The Democratic Party became more appealing to secularists and religious modernists and less attractive to traditionalists.
Academic text (2002) -
Moreover, this new religious cleavage occurs more often between secularists and traditionalists than between denominations.
Academic text (2002) -
Muslim liberal thinkers, secularists, and Westernized writers have always been looked upon as renegades from Islam.
Academic text (1996) -
The secularist movement advocates for the separation of church and state in public policy.
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In debates about education reform, secularists argue for non-religious curricula in schools.
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Etymology
The word secularist comes from secular, which means 'of the world' rather than 'religious'. So a secularist is a person who wants public life and government kept separate from religion.