More information: Will M. Gervais et al, Belief in belief: Even atheists in secular countries show intuitive preferences favoring religious belief, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

In 2007 Harvard Press published Taylor's A Secular Age, which drew praise for its deft discussion of how the last 500 years in "Latin Christendom" have brought us from a time when unbelief would have ...

secular conscience; and the scope of “prohibiting” vs. “burdening.” The first key issue concerns the meaning of the protected “exercise” of religion: does it encompass only the belief ...

Secular values such as humanism and belief in science were also associated with positive outcomes, but not as consistently. The researchers conducted this study to address a long-standing gap in ...

This may be unsettling to those who’ve invested in the idea of a steadily secularizing globe, but the numbers don’t lie. In the long run, the groups that reproduce tend to shape the narrative. If ...

Commonly, clients who are non-religious themselves want a therapist who holds a secular belief system similar to their own. In other instances, clients may be pursuing therapy to investigate their ...

Among those most actively concerned with the implications of secularism at Harvard is President Pusey, who last June devoted his Baccalaureate address to the subject of moral philosophy at Harvard.

Opposition politicians have called on the Government to act on a survey that found teachers believe schools should be more secular. The survey, issued by Civica to members of the Irish National ...