| 1. | " In both Europe and
North America the elementary school became a major international
battlefield of church and organized religion pitted against the state
and modern secular society."
| Source: | McNally, Vincent J. "Challenging the status quo: an examination of the history of Catholic education in British Columbia" Historical Studies 65 Jan. 1 1999: 71-91127-8
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| 2. | "... structure of the church, the sociology of religious
leadership, the views of the rank and file, the religious beliefs and
attitudes of secular elites, and the importance of religion and
society" (p. 9)."
| Source: | Melz, Allan. "AFTER THE REVOLUTION" Review of Politics 61.4 Sept. 22 1999: 782
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| 3. | "... "the separation of church and state." Although the
Constitution was secular, it did not put a wall of separation between
the state and religion."
| Source: | Singh, Mahendra P.,Verney, Douglas V. "Challenges to India's centralized parliamentary federalism" Publius 33.4 Sept. 22 2003: 1-21
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| 4. | "... religion, which makes a strange, unbiblical
distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the
secular" (p. 253), how white churches inherited a plantation legacy
that lives "in monologue rather than dialogue"..."
| Source: | Cartwright, Keith. "Voodoo hermeneutics/the crossroads sublime: soul musics, mindful body, and creole consciousness" Mississippi Quarterly 57.1 Dec. 22 2003: 157-171
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| 5. | " Christians are recognizing
that there is indeed a tension between the spiritual and the secular,
between religion and politics, between the Church and the world--all
issues that deeply troubled the author of De Ecclesia."
| Source: | DIDOMIZIO, DANIEL. "JAN HUS'S DE ECCLESIA, PRECURSOR OF VATICAN II?" Theological Studies 60.2 June 1 1999: 247
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| 6. | " The teaching of secular humanism in the
schools, they claimed, violated the principle of the separation of
church and state and established a new religion."
| Source: | Kurtz, Paul. "Humanist Manifesto 2000" Free Inquiry 19.4 Sept. 22 1999: 5
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| 7. | " Luckmann (1967: 36-37) called it internal
secularization: "a radical inner change in American church religion
. . . today the secular ideas of the American Dream pervade church
religion."
| Source: | Dobbelaere, Karel. "Towards an Integrated Perspective of the Processes Related to the Descriptive Concept of Secularization" Sociology of Religion 60.3 Sept. 22 1999: 229
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| 8. | "
The encyclical, the strongest form of papal teaching, asks other
religions and secular philosophies to reject relativism and nihilism,
which the church says robs life of meaning and morality."
| Source: | Witham, Larry. "Pontiff issues encyclical on `universality of truth': Unanticipated treatise attacks notion `that all positions are equally valid'" Washington Times Oct. 16 1998: 3
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| 9. | " Moved responsibility
for education from churches to government; encouraged ideal of secular
educational system that treats children of all religions (and none)
alike
Frederick Douglass's abolitionism (1841-1865)."
| Source: | . "100 Humanist Events That Changed the World" Free Inquiry 20.2 Mar. 22 2000: 42
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| 10. | "... [20]
Changes over time had a more pronounced impact on pious behavior,
with secular changes in the attitudes toward church and religion acting
independently of individual circumstances."
| Source: | Pammer, Michael. "DEATH AND THE TRANSFER OF WEALTH: BEQUEST PATTERNS AND CULTURAL CHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY" Journal of Social History 33.4 June 22 2000: 913
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| 11. | " Religion as a 'leisure pursuit' also places
the intelligentsia on a level with their neighbours; many people
mentioned the social diversity of church congregations, and there is
also an anti-secular culture strand within Orthodoxy which could in some
cases lead to erosion of..."
| Source: | WHITE, ANNE. "Social Change in Provincial Russia: The Intelligentsia in a Raion Centre" Europe-Asia Studies 52.4 June 1 2000: 677
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| 12. | " The Hindu-Christian Studies Bulletin reported:
There are universities which offer courses on Comparative Religion,
but a department meant to promote positive relations among religions is
indeed a novel venture from the point of view of secular universities."
| Source: | Dunbar, Scott Daniel. "The place of interreligious dialogue in the academic study of religion" Journal of Ecumenical Studies 35.3-4 June 22 1998: 455-456
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| 13. | "... by the people as one might once have conceived of it.
In contrast to this "civil liberty" regime, which
permitted widely differing views of what religion is, as well as what
its relation to government should be, the secular regime the Court began
instituting in the..."
| Source: | Glenn, Gary D.,Stack, John. "Is American Democracy Safe for Catholicism?" Review of Politics 62.1 Jan. 1 2000: 1
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| 14. | "
In Lijphart's view, Dutch society in the period from about
1920 to about 1960 was characterised primarily by vertical divisions
between groups based on religion or a secular ideology, rather than by
horizontal divisions based on socio-economic status or class."
| Source: | WINTLE, MICHAEL. "Pillarisation, Consociation and Vertical Pluralism in the Netherlands Revisited: A European View" West European Politics 23.3 July 1 2000: 139
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| 15. | " Although the state has been a secular republic for the
last 70 years, Islam has kept its vitality among the majority of the
population, and religion-state relations have not been completely
smooth."
| Source: | Cukur, Cem Safak,De Guzman, Maria Rosario T.,Carlo, Gustavo. "Religiosity, Values, and Horizontal and Vertical Individualism-Collectivism: a study of Turkey, the United States, and the Philippines" Journal of Social Psychology 144.6 Dec. 1 2004: 613-635
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| 16. | " After September 11, Philpott focused
on the challenge to the secular international order posed by political
Islam. "The attacks and the broader resurgence of public
religion," he says, ought to lead international relations scholars
to "direct far more energy to understanding the impetuses behind
movements..."
| Source: | Snyder, Jack. "One world, rival theories" Foreign Policy .145 Nov. 1 2004: 52-63
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| 17. | " According to Fuda,
separating religion from politics would serve the priorities of the
regime on the one hand, and at the same time preserve Islam as a
cultural and moral component of society and eventually of Egypt's
future secular identity."
| Source: | HATINA, MEIR. "On the Margins of Consensus: The Call to Separate Religion and State in Modern Egypt" Middle Eastern Studies 36.1 Jan. 1 2000: 35
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| 18. | " Belanger's schema seems straightforward
enough; religion permeates society so deeply that even in a
'secular' moment, religion casts a long shadow."
| Source: | Winner, Lauren. "The Ethics of Catholicism and the Consecration of theIntellectual" Journal of Ecclesiastical History v49.n3 July 1 1998: 581-583
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| 19. | "... Mr. Byrd.
"The Framers did not intend surely for a totally secular society to
be forced on the populace by government policy."
He says it's a "new sort of intolerance about religion
that I find most disturbing."
| Source: | McCaslin, John. "INSIDE THE BELTWAY" Washington Times Sept. 11 2000: 5
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| 20. | " The critique of religion is only part of
the secular humanist agenda, but it is important nonetheless--especially
because few other groups in society dare take up the task."
| Source: | . "LETTERS" Free Inquiry 20.3 June 22 2000: 27
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| 21. | "
First+ although European societies see themselves as broadly
secular, the Christian religions often play important institutional
social and political roles, regardless of how many or how few people
actually believe or practice the religion that the institution
represents."
| Source: | Statham, Paul. "Resilient Islam: Muslim controversies in Europe" Harvard International Review 26.3 Sept. 22 2004: 54-61
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| 22. | " Other groups joining the protest include the ACLU of
Georgia, the Atlanta Free-thought Society, the Church-State Network of
Georgia, Citizens for the Middle Ground, the Council for Secular
Humanism,..."
| Source: | . "AU, Allies Protest Official Prayer Days In Georgia, Florida" Church & State 53.6 June 1 2000: 21
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| 23. | "... "Churches are getting more savvy in terms of their media
approaches," he said of the national advertising campaign.
"But it is also very clear that the politics of the church are
simply a mirror image of the politics in secular society."
| Source: | . "News Tip: United Church of Christ Ad Shows Politicization of Religion in America" AScribe Law News Service Dec. 3 2004
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| 24. | " The closure of the
political regime and a deepening institutional crisis of the Brazilian
church, as it struggled to adjust to an increasingly urban and secular
society,..."
| Source: | HOUTZAGER, PETER P. "Social Movements amidst Democratic Transitions: Lessons from the Brazilian Countryside" Journal of Development Studies 36.5 June 1 2000: 59
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| 25. | " In each case these controversies revealed an
ambivalence by Adventists toward other Christians and secular
society--are we like them or different, and how much does it
matter?--that contributed to a crisis of identity for the church."
| Source: | Schoepflin, Rennie B. "Seventh-day Adventism in Crisis: Gender and Sectarian Change in an Emerging Religion" Church History 72.4 Dec. 1 2003: 908-910
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