New research measuring the importance of religion in 109 countries spanning the entire 20th century has reignited an age-old debate around the link between secularisation and economic growth. The ...

The question: is Europe's future Christian? In a little-noticed speech last year the head of the Vatican's department for interfaith contacts, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, thanked Muslims for bringing ...

Modern universities have fallen prey to certain forces of secularisation, which have brought about the proliferation of control measures in the form of burgeoning bureaucracies, outcome-based ...

Claims abound that the "secularisation thesis" (that society would steadily become less religious) has been proved false. The 2001 census reported that over 70% of people were Christian, and faith ...

Scientists, intellectuals and social scientists expected that the spread of modern science would drive secularisation – that science would be a secularising force. But that simply hasn’t been the case ...

The argument is concerned with the contribution of fiction to the secularisation of religion and, in particular, with the development in fiction of a secular religious discourse. The literary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and ...

In view of the Constitution of 1973 and the many authoritative pronouncements of our judiciary regarding Pakistan’s status as an Islamic state, it is logical to question whether secularisation of ...

It has become very frequent for some people, particularly committed Catholics, to express an earnest fear of secularisation. The word seems to conjure in their mind a myriad of hideous evils: impiety, ...

New research measuring the importance of religion in 109 countries spanning the entire 20th century has reignited an age-old debate around the link between secularization and economic growth. The ...