Nepal was constituted as a secular state after the endorsement of the Interim Constitution in January 2007, which was formally ratified in May 2008. The declaration of secularism was taken as a major ...

Srinagar: Sixty years after it was adopted, the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir is set to correct an apparent oversight and answer a fundamental question: Is Jammu and Kashmir a secular state?

Talal Asad has conducted extensive research on the phenomenon of religion (and secularism), particularly the religious revival in the Middle East. Professor Asad is the author of Genealogies of ...

In his paper “The Transformation of the Sharia from Jurists’ Law to Statutory Law in the contemporary Muslim world”, Aharon Layish outlines how Sharia was originally ‘jurists’ law” i.e. law created by ...

On the night of March 7, 2011, Justice (retd) Javid Iqbal was interviewed on a TV channel on the nature of the Pakistani state. He held that Pakistan, as envisaged by Jinnah, was to be a secular state ...

Another sit in by a religious group. Another state capitulation. Time has come to make a decisive choice. In order to ensure a viable future for itself, free from the kind of internal ...

In the Dáil last month Paul Murphy TD said: "We think the prayer should go. It is anachronistic that we start every day here with a prayer. We have an increasingly secular society. We want a secular ...

Episcopal Conference of Malawi (ECM) secretary general Father Henry Saindi has dismissed assertions that Malawi is not a secular state, saying human rights activists are wrong to conclude so. Reverend ...

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