"Émile Durkheim, one of the founders of modern sociology, ... strove to insert and settle “society” in the place vacat…"

"Secularization theory is a term that was used in the fifties and sixties by a number of social scientists and histori…"

"There is a continuous skewing of the historical perspective toward religious explanations. Secularization is the wond…"

"We must discover the rational substitutes for those religious motives that have, for so long, served as the vehicle f…"

"Augustine claimed that human beings had totally lost their capacity for free will as a result of Adam’s original sin.…"

"As the dominant social ethic changed from a religious to a secular one, the problem of heresy disappeared, and the pr…"

"Scholars, journalists, activists, and others have an almost knee-jerk tendency to praise Bangladesh's beginnings as a…"

"Pakistan is like Israel, an ideological state. Take out Judaism from Israel and it will collapse like a house of card…"

"They were afraid that once Islam became the state - religion in Pakistan , other religious groups would be discrimina…"

"India was declared a “secular, socialist republic” under Indira Gandhi’s Emergency dictatorship, which many vocal sec…"