The most important driver of secularisation in the West in recent decades has been people abandoning their religion, says Stephanie Kramer, also of Pew.

Militant secularisation: faith can be positive for society says David Cameron David Cameron has said that faith can make a positive contribution to society after Baroness Warsi, a Cabinet minister ...

It is the secularisation process that needs academic attention to understand the complex interaction between the "secular" and the "religious". The Economic and Political Weekly, published from Mumbai ...

Well, undoubtedly, there is a complex array of inter-related factors (as detailed in the “secularisation paradigm”). But one factor that I consider especially important is science or, more precisely, ...

Press release issued: 18 July 2018 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 ...

Vatican City (AsiaNews) - Secularisation - living without God - is invading every aspect of human life, and for some time has stricken the Church itself.

Baroness Warsi has previously raised the issue of Islamophobia with Pope Benedict XVI Britain is under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation", a cabinet minister has warned ...

He defines this as ‘secularisation without secularism.’ The state continued to usurp social and physical spaces once dominated by the clerics, pirs and ulema.

During socialism, mining regions - such as Gemer, south-east Slovakia - or heavily industrialised regions, were already undergoing faster secularisation. Yet human geographer Juraj Majo from Comenius ...

He defines this as “secularisation without secularism.” The state continued to usurp social and physical spaces once dominated by the clerics, pirs and ulema.

These exceptions can, I believe, blind us to the alarming situation in traditional white areas, especially the countryside, thought, till not long ago, to be the stronghold of the Church of England.