New research measuring the importance of religion in 109 countries spanning the entire 20th century has reignited an age-old debate around the link between secularisation and economic growth. The ...

Modern universities have fallen prey to certain forces of secularisation, which have brought about the proliferation of control measures in the form of burgeoning bureaucracies, outcome-based ...

The question: is Europe's future Christian? In a little-noticed speech last year the head of the Vatican's department for interfaith contacts, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, thanked Muslims for bringing ...

The argument is concerned with the contribution of fiction to the secularisation of religion and, in particular, with the development in fiction of a secular religious discourse. The literary ...

If you were smart, you'd leave it nice and vague. "The opinion is everywhere gaining ground that religion is a mere survival from a primitive … age, and its extinction only a matter of time," ...

University of Bristol provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. We have known for decades that secular countries tend to be richer than religious ones. Finding out why involves ...

The findings: Secularisation occurs before economic development which means development does not cause secularisation. But does secularisation lead to development? Respect for individual rights ...

Pooyan Tamimi Arab is the secretary of the non-profit research institute GAMAAN. Ammar Maleki is the director of the non-profit research institute GAMAAN. GAMAAN (gamaan.org) collaborated with and ...

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New research measuring the importance of religion in 109 countries spanning the entire 20th century has reignited an age-old debate around the link between secularization and economic growth. The ...