secularism

Christopher Hitchens cannot be accused of being a name-dropper. The names come positively flinging off the pages of his newly-released memoir, Hitch-22, but can he be blamed for befriending some of the most interesting and influential figures of his time, like Salman Rushdie, Edward…

The week in religion, poetically…

Groups raise concerns about nominee’s commitment to separation of church and state and religious freedom.

The cost to justice of theo-political alliances.

Communist leaders in the Soviet Union tried to bolster their legitimacy through an appeal to atheism, but God was not on their side.

Few writers could to pick a theme as grand as the global interplay of democracy and religion and hope to utter the final word on the subject. In his latest book, Ian Buruma, a journalist and historian with over a dozen seminal books to his…

Event ends up using prayer to divide rather than bring us together.

Other watchdogs also object to “Christian-themed” event featuring evangelist who had denounced Islam as “evil.”

The Enlightenment was not, as is often assumed, exclusively secular. In fact, religious Protestants, Jews and Catholics played a key role in imagining a tolerant, but believing, society.

The surprising results of the latest Pew survey on religion in America.