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A thriving, yet small, liberal component in Israeli society has frequently taken issue with the constraints imposed by religious orthodoxy, largely with limited success. However, Guy Ben-Porat suggests, in recent years, in part because of demographic changes and in part because of the influence of an increasingly consumer-oriented society, dramatic changes have occurred in secularization of significant parts of public and private lives. Even though these fissures often have more to do with lifestyle choices and economics than with political or religious ideology, the demands and choices of a secular public and a burgeoning religious presence in the government are becoming ever more difficult to reconcile. The evidence, which the author has accrued from numerous interviews and a detailed survey, is nowhere more telling than in areas that demand religious sanction such as marriage, burial, the sale of pork, and the operation of businesses on the Sabbath

When does the exercise of an interest constitute a human right? The contributors to Menuge's edited collection offer a range of secular and religious responses to this fundamental question of the legitimacy of human rights claims. This topical book is of interest to a range of academics from disciplines spanning law, philosophy, religion and politics.

Various contemporary phenomena of social regression and authoritarianism are related to religious actors, movements, and beliefs. This text, however, seeks to follow this up with the political–theoretical argumentation that New Atheism has to be understood as a way of thinking which carries illiberal and authoritarian tendencies with it as well. In defence of this position, this article will first reconstruct, with reference to Habermas's and Rawls's theory of democracy, elements that must include personal beliefs in order to be considered congruent with democratic values. Subsequently, New Atheism's conception of rational politics will be presented in order to show in which aspects it contradicts the demands of reasonable convictions. This concerns, in particular, the rejection of reasonable pluralism on the one hand and a non-positivistic view of human beings on the other. As a conclusion, this text supports the proposition that, when speaking of the connection between certain worldviews and today's illiberalism, New Atheism must also be considered as an unreasonable comprehensive doctrine.

"Church, State, and Political Culture in Orthodox Christianity" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Liberalism and Religion" published on by Oxford University Press.

The article deals with the implementation of the foundations of a secular state in such Russian mono-religious regions as the Republic of Ingushetia and the Chechen Republic. Since the formation of the Russian Federation, the legal framework of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia has evolved in the light of national and religious characteristics. The most significant was the influence of Islam. The federal secular legislation has been developed in various forms and ways of expression, taking into account Islamic characteristics.Each of the republics is analyzed for violation of the criteria of secularity, specified in Article 14 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation and Article 4 of Federal Law No. 125 "On Freedom of Conscience and on Religious Associations". ; В статье рассматривается реализация основ светского государства в таких российских монорелигиозных регионах, как Республика Ингушетия и Чеченская Республика. С момента образования Российской Федерации правовое поле Чеченской Республики и Республики Ингушетия развивалось с учетом национальных и религиозных особенностей. Наиболее существенным оказалось влияние ислама. Федеральное светское законодательство получило развитие в разных формах и способах выражения, учитывающих исламские особенности.Каждая из республик проанализирована на факт нарушения критериев светскости, указанных в ст. 14 Конституции РФ и ст. 4, Федерального закона №125 «О свободе совести и о религиозных объединениях».

In precolonial Morocco, dominated by a sultanate of religious origin (the Alawite dynasty), political fault lines referred to clans and guilds, in a social and cultural context firmly based on Islam. To defend its borders against both Ottomans and Europeans, Morocco chose a more closed policy than that current in the Middle East, staying at the edge of the progressive and secularizing reforms which were affecting nineteenth century culture and institutions of other Muslim countries such as Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia (Burke 1972). The treaty of Fes of March 30, 1912, which placed the country under a protectorate (Rivet 1996), profoundly changed this situation, plunging Morocco into modern dynamics. Though the process was doubtless gradual, it's possible to establish the moment when pre-colonial political dialectics gave way to new forms which would lead the country towards new expressions and contents, in the events which followed the publication of the Berber dahir on May 16, 1930.

The aim of this article is to examine the way in which knowledge-power is exercised in contemporary controversies in healthcare, and what this flexing of discursive muscles shows about the nature of secularity and its relationship to religion. The discussion is focused on two controversial issues at the heart of general medical practice in the UK: the doctor–­patient relationship and complementary and alternative medicine. As will become clear, participation in these debates is not restricted to doctors alone, but increasingly to government departments, professional medical and scientific bodies, therapists beyond the medical mainstream, and patients themselves. What is interesting for scholars of religion is the way in which the debates (which are not confined only to discourse, but are also reflected in physical and social spaces) reveal deep-seated but dynamic values. The debates themselves, and many of the values and opinions expressed in association with them, are ostensibly 'secular', but, as we shall see, 'religion' has an interesting place within them. It variously enters the scene as a crit­ical tool, the butt of jokes, the enemy or a potentially fruitful partner (particularly in its nascent guise as 'spirituality'). The author suggests that there are two important outcomes of this examination: first, the opening up of a secular organisation and exposure of the heterogeneity of value and knowledge positions within it, and, secondly, the recognition that methodological tools from within the study of religions (in this case a spatial analysis for locating religion) can be put to use in such an examination, in pursuit of a fuller understanding of secularity.