“The institutional church has become hopelessly corporate, hopelessly tangled in a web of secularism.”

“Sphere sovereignty is an alternative to the world views of ecclesiasticism and secularism.”

“It also threatens social and political stability in France, and contravenes the rights which secularism and the Republic are supposed to protect.”

“The secularization debate is primarily concerned with the role or power of religion and churches in society.”

“Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization.”

“The desacralization resulting from exaggerated secularization has resulted in a value vacuum which is being filled by a utilitarian ethic.”

“I call upon all secularist forces and freedom-lovers to stand up and protest against the setting up of these tribunals in Canada.”

“Since the end of the First World War, strong secularist tendencies have been evident.”

“Nehru eulogized him and lionized him as a great secularist and anti-feudal.”

“Claims are made about the total irrelevance of humanism to the secularisation process.”

“Moreover, the 1950s and 60s saw a movement of secularisation of the city folk and of the country's educated classes.”

“For a first speaker, the secularisation of Iranian society has happened in a paradoxical manner.”

“A debate on whether the party must include non-Muslims to project its secularity is really uncalled for.”

“If the central institutions take a turn towards militant secularity, this will be unacceptable to many of the member states.”

“So the Medium Lobster salutes Virgina's attempt to put a stop to creeping secularity in our private arrangements.”

“In the early twentieth century, the aggressive secularizers found an important ally in the leaders of liberal Protestantism, says Smith.”

“Surely, in an ideal world, all the religious would be secularists and all the atheists would be tolerant of the religious?”

“There is distrust between Shi'a and Sunni, between secularists, conservatives and Islamists, and between tribes and clans.”

“And it is no longer the province of secularists and the left, but is increasingly fanned by religionists and the right.”

“Most priests were seculars, living in the world and working amongst ordinary people.”

“The Hamas knows that seculars comprise a large portion of their constituency.”

“The sense of belonging is frail, both with religious and with the seculars.”