Steven Pinker

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.

Canadian Scientist

Mehdi Hasan

As a supporter of secularism, I am willing to accept same-sex weddings in a state-sanctioned register office, on grounds of equity. As a believer in Islam, however, I insist that no mosque be forced to hold one against its wishes.

British Journalist

Gad Saad

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions. To argue otherwise is to violate the meaning of secularism.

Billy Graham

It's no secret that in New York during the last 30 years there has been a tragic exodus from the churches into materialism, secularism and humanism.

American Clergyman

Gary Bauer

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

American Public Servant

Fethullah Gulen

I have said time and again that the republican order, and secularism, when executed perfectly, are blessings from God.

Turkish Activist

Francis Schaeffer

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

American Theologian

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression.

French Politician

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Indian Statesman

Yogi Adityanath

Indian Politician

Secularism refers to keeping religion separate from public life like government or schools.

Public Sphere

Secularism promotes fairness to all religions by not letting any one dominate public institutions.

Religious Neutrality

Secularism supports decision-making based on reason and evidence, not on religious texts.

Critical Thought

Secularism in social sciences isn't about religion, but long-term societal changes.

Beyond Religion

It involves studying how societies become more complex and culturally diverse over time.

Progressive Change

Secularism can mean certain trends in society are expected, like increased technology use.

Predictable Trends

 hyper secular republic until very recently we used to have what I call secularism police which would guard the universities against Wales to the students in other words they would force students to uncover their heads and I think forcing people to uncover their

Faith versus tradition...

 people may be being religious in a different way, as a report has just shown -- but they still want to be religious. It's only Western Europe that has retained its secularism, which is now beginning to look rather endearingly old-fashioned.

Karen Armstrong: 2008...

 that would scare anybody you know so when we talk about secularism in India we don't say everyone comes to India and becomes a melting pot we say you come to India and become a buffet it's like a trolley it's a very different