Journalist and author Susan Jacoby joins Host Larry Mantle to discuss her new book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism. Jacoby’s book discusses “freethinkers,” or secular thinkers, ...

Secularism is deadly, but it’s on the rise in both Europe and the United States. When will we ever learn? An unnamed Catholic priest is led to his execution in Kalisz, Poland, in 1939. (photo: Tadeusz ...

(RNS) — At its core, secularism is an approach to governance, writes Jacques Berlinerblau in his new book ‘Secularism: The Basics.’ And critically, it is one many religious people, not just atheists ...

THE coexistence of the “godly” and the “godless” of traditional piety and modern secularism has been a characteristic of Western civilization since the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The rise ...

Do religion and politics mix? It's a question Nicholas Sarkozy has answered in the affirmative--and he's been criticized for it. Secularism, however, doesn't necessarily rebuff religion in public life ...

Journalist Susan Jacoby says that more than half of Americans will change religion at least once in their adult life time. Her new book is 'Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion.' Classical ...

Humeira Iqtidar had received funding from the ERC for her project Tolerance in Contemporary Muslim Thought: Political Theory Beyond the West (2012-2015) Governments in Britain have tended to treat ...

Tolerance, openness and secularism are the first steps towards economic prosperity, according to new research. Since the Enlightenment began in the eighteenth century, many societies around the world ...

Journalist Susan Jacoby tells Fresh Air that more than half of Americans will change religion at least once in their adult life time. Her new book... 'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of ...

The COVID crisis throws into relief what happens when grief has—quite literally—nowhere to go. The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations. Article 20 ...

I think it will be some years before we understand how great a legacy Pope Benedict XVI will be leaving us. Part of that legacy to be especially treasured will be the Pope’s reflections on the dangers ...