The question: is Europe's future Christian? In a little-noticed speech last year the head of the Vatican's department for interfaith contacts, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, thanked Muslims for bringing ...

The argument is concerned with the contribution of fiction to the secularisation of religion and, in particular, with the development in fiction of a secular religious discourse. The literary ...

In his 2007 book A Secular Age, Canadian philosopher Charles Tylor writes that three categories of secularism have evolved since the proper emergence of the idea —mainly from the 18th century onwards.

Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that ...

Cet article fait partie du dossier sur le suicide des prêtres. (Cf. le sommaire en pied de page). Jean-François Noël est prêtre du diocèse d’Aix-en-Provence et psychanalyste (1). Il a quitté une ...

If you were smart, you'd leave it nice and vague. "The opinion is everywhere gaining ground that religion is a mere survival from a primitive … age, and its extinction only a matter of time," ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We have known for decades that secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Finding out why involves ...

Pour beaucoup de petits Européens, le mois de septembre marque aussi la rentrée du « caté ». À un âge assez proche - vers 8 ans -, les enfants rejoignent des groupes animés dans les paroisses par des ...

Dans tout ce débat autour de la laïcité, on ne peut faire abstraction d’un certain courant fort présent dans la société québécoise et aussi dans les autres sociétés occidentales. Je pense ici au ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...