On October 31, Ashok Swain, an Indian-origin professor of peace and conflict at Uppsala University in Sweden, wrote in a tweet, “India is like the Middle East & North Africa—consti­tu­tionally secular ...

BJP National Spokesperson Dr. Sudhanshu Trivedi contrasts the ideologies of Jawaharlal Nehru and Narendra Modi, arguing that ...

The concept of secularism among Arabs and Muslims has been the subject of much debate since the emergence of Sunni and Shiite Islamic “sahwa” (awakening). The Muslim Brotherhood has played a ...

Given that secularism had not been defined in the Constitution and did not form part of the preamble until the 1970s, given that the meaning Nehru allotted to the concept was not codified in law, and ...

Secularism as a modern concept is aligned with the concepts of equality, freedom, and democracy. Secularism anywhere in the world works is the antidote to communalism, which is required to check the ...

Secularism has long been viewed as integral to modernization due to its connection with the Enlightenment. The broad secularization thesis suggests that as societies modernized, the influence of ...

Gender equality should not be pitted against religious freedom, so what kind of political arrangements could guarantee religious women’s rights and full social inclusion? The 1970s feminist movement ...

The time has come to consider the values and practices of secularism as a way of organising society. We live in a world where there are many sources of truth and not one and where pluralism and ...

But as historian Leigh Eric Schmidt shows in his lively tour through the expansionist heyday of the secular creed, the longed-for golden age never really got off the ground. The initial cohort of ...

Allah, the Most Exalted, sent down The Book (the Noble Quran) to clarify all things and to give Guidance and Mercy to people who believe. He sent His Messenger, Muhammad with guidance and the true ...