Parties of Power: Understanding the Significance of Congress and BJP in Shaping Indian Democracy by Younis Ahmad Sheikh, Imran Majeed

“…The Congress Party has a long history linked to India’s independence movement and is associated with a secular and socialist ideology. The BJP, founded in 1980, is associated with Hindu nationalism and has become increasingly influential in recent years. …”
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MINDFUL HAPPINESS NOWADAYS: by B Lemmelijn

“… Our current times are characterized by a strange paradox. The secularized world we live in no longer embraces Christianity as such nor its concrete praxis in churches. …”
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Déplacements et tensions dans les politiques éducatives de 1985 à 2015 : l’exemple des injonctions à propos de l'enseignement moral et civique  by Charlène Ménard

“…Reflecting politics and media debates about secularism and national identity, this program is part of a larger project to reinforce citizenship education and republican values. …”
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Walter Xaver z Dietrichsteina na kavalírské cestě (1683–1688) a jeho boj proti předurčené budoucnosti by Lenka Maršálková

“…With that, however, this young man had never reconciled and just during his grand tour there was a major turnaround: on his father he gradually acquired not only directing of his education to be more secular but also the promise that in the future he will be allowed to leave the clergy. …”
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Pedagogical Views and Educational Activities of Ismail Gasprinsky by Мухиддин Хайруддинов

“…Gasprinsky spoke up for the synthesis of Muslim doctrine and the achievements of modern science, he created and led the Jadid pedagogical movement aimed at the transition from confessional and Russian civic education to the creation of a national secular education. All his life I. Gasprinsky was defending the interests of the Crimean Tatars, Mus- lims and societies living in conditions of colonial slavery. …”
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PRAYER IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AS SPIRITUAL WISDOM FOR TODAY by C Lombaard

“…The modern sociological interest in religion, spirituality and prayer is indicated, but not explored, with a shared wisdom orientation in aspects of Old Testament life and in the currently unfolding post-secular religio-cultural climate that forms the bridge between the ancient and the modern in the analysis of prayer. …”
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Fasts and Feasts in Estonians’ Representations of the Seto Culture by Andreas Kalkun

“…Seto religious piety and feasts were regarded in the young Republic of Estonia as an attack on a common national identity, something that subverted the ideals of abstemious and secular nationalism.…”
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Are humans by birth as wicked as the Heidelberg Catechism (3-11) holds? A dialogue between theology and modern sciences by P. Lampe

“… While the introduction compares the Heidelberg Catechism’s theologically framed concept of sin with similar and opposing secular views of the past (e.g., Plautus, Quintilian, Hobbes), the main part uses contemporary scientific studies to challenge the Catechism’s view that (after alienation from God in the Fall) all human individuals by birth are wicked: incapable of loving others. …”
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Mujeres y liturgia parroquial by Raquel Torres Jiménez

“…This paper analyses some aspects of the religious life of common secular women, neither religious nor wealthy ─a topic rarely addressed in historiography─, living in rural villages of the Calatrava lordship in Castile in the 15th and 16th centuries. …”
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Ortodoks teologi ved en skillevej by Emil Hilton Saggau

“…This relationship to the state is a pragmatic embrace of secular power with theological roots, but the war has revealed the tension in Orthodox political theology. …”
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Visual Vertigo, Phantasmagoric Physiognomies: Joseph Roth and Walter Benjamin on the Visual Experience of Architecture by Stefan Koller

“…It shows that Benjamin’s specific contribution to this body of literature is the invention of a secular mythology, with a clear application to architecture in Benjamin’s focus on the ‘boundless interiorisation’ of glass and iron construction. …”
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Ennahdha et les salafistes : la construction relationnelle de la « modération » by Théo Blanc

“…This article proposes to go beyond the institutionalist lens of the inclusion-moderation theory and the asymmetrical approach of the cooperation-moderation theory by pointing out how Ennahdha’s moderation was articulated in a double pressure between secular actors and radical Islamic actors (Salafis). …”
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Il tempo, il racconto, la scienza e il drago. I libri postumi di Antonino Buttitta e un ricordo di Alberto Sobrero by Federico Scarpelli

“…The shared dimension of intentionality and language – which particularly emerges in Sobrero’s reflections on narration and on Buttitta’s reflections on memory – allows both to read individual existence within collective historical frames that give it meaning and depth, and which can also represent a secular idea of survival.…”
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The “Doctrine” of Law in Israel by Natali Levin

“…Overall, the article contributes valuable insights into the complexities of Israel’s legal landscape, particularly the balance between secular and religious influences, making it relevant for scholars, practitioners, and those interested in the intersection of law and society.…”
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Education in Latin America at the turn of the 20th century: ‘epistemologies of the South’ versus ‘education in complexity’ by Elena Anatolievna Zhizhko, Gali-Aleksandra Beltrán

“…On the other hand, as its alternative, since the end of the 20th century, education in complexities has been taking shape with its vision of rationalized and secular social life, creating new paradigms in regional education.…”
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Christian Felix Weiße’s Poetry in Latvian and Estonian Literature by Ave Mattheus, Pauls Daija

“…Translations of Weiße’s poems were of great significance because they paved the way for the emergence of secular poetry in both languages. First translations appeared in the 1770s, and others followed in the next decades. …”
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Long-term wage inequality in imperial China: From 202 BCE to 1912 CE. by Qiang Wu, Guangyu Tong, Peng Zhou

“…The intra-class wage inequality has a secular decline trend. We propose a unified framework incorporating technological, institutional, political, and social (TIPS) mechanisms to explain both long-term and short-term patterns. …”
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The End of History? by Jean-Marc Chadelat

“…Yet the apocalypse proclaimed by the archbishop of Canterbury in Henry VIII depends on a secular teleology of time highlighting its problematic ambivalence. …”
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Richard Hurrell Froude et le spectre du désétablissement by Hervé Picton

“…The best thing to preserve the Church from the corrupting influence of a secular State is therefore to « unnationalize » it. …”
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Time, Infrastructure and Knowledge: Rethinking Temporality in the Anthropocene by Vando Borghi, Luigi Pellizzoni, Paolo Savoia

“…Addressing the concept of “non-trivial futures”, he argues that the Anthropocene aligns with and strengthens capitalism’s recursive temporality and secular eschatology, opening space for conservative or reactionary designs. …”
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