Secularity

In “Introduction: Rethinking Secularism” by Calhoun, Juergensmeyer, and Antwerpen, the authors discuss how until recently it was assumed that public life was secular (3). The authors say on one hand people could write about economics, politics, and social behavior without it being connected to religion or as though religion didn’t exist at all (Calhoun et al., 3). They go on to say, “Secularism, on the other hand, appeared to have no ideological significance on its own, other than the…

allowed and anyone who strayed from God’s will, would be dealt with severely. However, there was eventually someone who questioned this way of life. This person was Thomas Morton. Thomas Morton was the direct opposite of Bradford. He was a man of secularity and open-mindedness. He visited Bradford’s colony for a brief time and was dissatisfied with their culture. He left and then returned with new ideas like Capitalism and freedom of religion. Bradford didn’t like Morton sharing these ideas…

In chapter ten Jones discusses the two secularities ways that blues began to separate into throughout these next few years. People who moved forward to citizenship moved away from older blues. When the city blues began to be powerful, the larger negro dance bands hired some of the emigrants as soloists and the blues began to be heard everywhere. However, the materials of blues were unavailable to the middle class and the white man. The movement far from mainstream developed what was known as…

The death of religion in America is not one that should be mourned rather it should be celebrated as a transition to a potentially less polarized country. This death was not orchestrated against religion, but rather, the death of religion is simply a product of its own existence. Religion brought the country together in 1776, in 2001, and many times in between, churches have provided irreplaceable central hubs for human rights conversations, demonstrations, and celebrations. However it has also…

Joan Scott’s book Politics of the Veil assesses the implications of the French government’s ban on clothing and religious signs, in particular, the wearing of veils in public schools. In the book she discloses the French government's argument for banning the headscarf which she contends with her own assertion by exploring factors such as racism, postcolonial guilt and fear among many other things. In my study, I am particularly interested in exploring the contradictory nature of the ban as it…

Morality and religion are two separate entities, though to ignore religion's effect on morality would be unproductive in furthering one's understanding of ethicality. Without a proper understanding of both, however, it is difficult to truly explore their interconnectedness. Morality is defined as "the principles concerning the distinction between right and wrong or good and bad behavior." Though seemingly not linked with religion at all, much of the morals our society has come to codify has a…

Yesterday at Notre Dame Cathedral, Eastern Synod Lutheran Bishop Michael Pryse and I took part in a service commemorating the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Catholics and Lutheran adherents and others from a variety of Christian denominations joined us. The service included mixed choirs supported by the Basilica’s powerful organ, sincere prayers for Christian unity, and the tangible witness of being together in prayer. In our own way, we were living out ourselves the prayer of…

for some individuals, it appears to be coherency of worldview along with intensity of belief and certainty in this worldview (whatever it may be), which appears to contribute positively to well-being. Thus, not only can strong belief in God provide psychological benefits, but also can strong nonbelief in God (Galen, 2015). Uzdavines’s found that individuals who were more “closed” to the existence of gods (i.e., sure there are not any) reported less struggles than those who were more “open.” Is…

“Statically Islam is the second religion in France, but socially it is practiced by a group of people that is dominated, unprivileged and reduced to political silence.” Ever since the attacks on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo in January of 2015, France has deemed itself incompatible with immigrants, particularly those who identify as Muslim or come from North Africa or the Middle East. Since the start of 2015 there have been more than 11 large-scale attacks affiliated with ISIS, causing…

1. Introduction: Nowadays several contemporary countries are described by multiculturalism (cultural varieties), multilingualism, and different ethnic and confessional views. Regarding the fact that the population has multi religious, multiethnic, and multicultural views, many efforts have been made to manage the mutual diversities and the differences linked with the identity of public and political unity. It denotes to the cultural diversities that originate from the presence of two or more…