Secularism


A Secular Age
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report
The God Delusion
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
The Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor
Islam and Secularism
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Why I Am Not a Secularist
Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey
Rethinking Secularism
Secularism and Its Critics (Themes in Politics)
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct. ...more
Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism

Mahatma Gandhi
If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern! ...more
Mahatma Gandhi

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