From New York to Alaska, some universities chose to use the neutral holiday tree term rather than Christmas tree, a practice ...

Ultra-Orthodox leaders hold event in Ramat Beit Shemesh taking aim at a community of immigrants thought more likely to enlist ...

Bill 21 violated the “fundamental freedoms” provided in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaranteed in Canada’s 1982 Constitution. However, that Constitution, unlike the U.S., but like Israel and ...

The president of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE, by its Spanish acronym), Archbishop Luis Argüello, opened the conference’s 127th plenary assembly this week with a deep analysis of Spain’s ...

The bishops of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) held their spring assembly this week in Italy, a meeting in which they considered the European Union’s vocation ...

Galen Watts is an Associate Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Societal Futures based jointly at St. Jerome's University and the University of Waterloo. He receives funding from the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The multiplicity of theories of secularization can be grouped into three general theoretical orientations: those which point to loss of bases ...

In the classic narratives of adultery, such as those of David and Bathsheba or Lancelot and Guinevere, infidelity was viewed as a profound transgression against divine law and moral order. Adultery ...

The story of religion in Canada in the first part of the 21st century is about people leaving it. Across all demographics, people are disaffiliating from religious groups and no longer attending ...

A symposium 25 years on. On June 1 and 2, 1990, the Pew Charitable Trust sponsored a major academic conference at Duke University on the subject of secularization in modern higher education. Those of ...

In this competent survey, sociologists Cragun and Smith (co-editors of Secularity and Nonreligion in North America) examine the wave of secularization that has been rising across America since the ...