If the above paragraph is a head-scratcher, that is because “nonreligious” and “secular” are often treated as two ways of saying the same thing. But as political scientists who study religion – and ...

People increasingly craft their spiritual lives according to personal values, rather than institutional dictates.

A decade-long study tracking young Americans reveals a profound shift happening in religious life across the country: people ...

The headscarf controversy in Turkish Cypriot schools after a regulation governing school dress was changed to authorise schoolgirls to cover their heads raises human rights issues the European Court ...

Anecdotally speaking, I don’t find nonbelievers any more rational than religious people. None of this is to say that secular ideas are all depraved or useless, either. And if everyone was as ...

People have killed in the name of faith. But the bloodier record belongs to regimes that tried blotting it out. Among proponents of a more secular society, it is often taken for granted that ...

Secularism is stumbling. The secular mindset that emerged from the Enlightenment — the belief that religion would fade while science delivered heaven on earth — has failed. Though most love ...

The Quebec government is putting forward a bill that would extend the province's ban on the wearing of religious symbols to ...

In our surveys, many people without a religious affiliation do not cite any particular worldview or philosophy when asked what guides their life. Secular people, on the other hand, define ...