Arab uprisings: what kind of religion or irreligion?
Religion changes and mutates. Some of these religious mutations can be positively harmful in a changing Middle East. But other religious innovations can help religion accommodate itself to modernity,...
View ArticleSchama Cambridge lecture points to secularity in the Middle East
Discussion is needed on the prospects of secular polity in the Middle East, historian Professor Simon Schama has said in a public lecture at Cambridge University.The sudden spread of "democratic...
View ArticleSecular power in Swedish schools
Sweden, by some standards one of the world’s most secular countries, has passed a new education law stipulating that public schools must teach their subjects in a “non-confessional” and “objective”...
View ArticleAverage Norwegian goes to church once a year, statistics show
The average Church of Norway member went to church once a year in 2010, Statistics Norway reported in the annual statistical report it sends to the church.The average Church of Norway member went to...
View ArticleIs a 'secular bible' good enough?
It is not the non-theistic philosophy that is dismaying in Grayling’s new 'secular bible', says Maggi dawn. It’s the sheer failure of imagination of someone who will dismiss the real Bible as mumbo...
View ArticleBonhoeffer offers clues to being church in ‘religionless’ eastern Germany
A widespread “everyday atheism” requires a new understanding of what it means to be the church, according to Berlin theologian Dr Wolf Krötke.More than two decades after the end of communism in eastern...
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Critical religion and the 'religion-secular' binary
Classifying communities and their practices and values as ‘religious’ often has the effect of marginalising them from the mainstream of public debates on justice and the proper ends of the good life,...
View ArticleEuropean secularists complain of unfair treatment
Humanist and secularist organisations have accused the European Union of denying them equal treatment compared to the continent's Christian churches.Humanist and secularist organizations have accused...
View ArticleFrench candidate wants to put church-state separation into constitution
The Socialist front-runner in the race for the French presidency wants the separation of church and state to be put directly into the constitution.The front-runner in the race for the French presidency...
View ArticleCameron's "Christian country"
A society that favours the rich and shuns the poor is far away from biblical visions of equality and justice.Who knew that the question of Britain’s religious identity was so newsworthy? First David...
View ArticleWCC panel discusses ideas on European identity
A panel of religious leaders, policymakers and journalists met on 20 April 2016 at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva to discuss questions including the idea of a 'European identity' and the contributions...
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