Article 20 of Japan’s constitution, written in 1946, states the following: “Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all. No religious organization shall receive any privileges from the State, nor ...

Religion has framed and shaped much of human culture. The belief that there are supernatural forces or powerful deities pervading nature, or the proposition that a supreme Creator God rules the ...

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 ...

About 20 years ago, there seemed to be a prevailing consensus (maybe more of a prevailing hope) that America was slowly becoming a more secular society. That’s not to say that religion wasn’t a very ...

The Constitution has not failed to define secularism. What we suffer from is selective understanding. We remember secularism ...

Pope Leo XVI meets with members of the European Parliament’s Working Group on Intercultural and Interreligious Dialogue at the Vatican Sept. 29, 2025. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV’s ...

A religion is defined by its creeds, holy texts and institutions. The recent report prepared by an advisory committee to the government, Pour une laïcité québécoise encore plus cohérente, is meant to ...

We often assume that however things are going, so they will continue to go. This assumption is strongest when the dynamic in question is part of the struggle between modernity and tradition.