{"id":149,"date":"2010-11-09T09:25:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/does-religious-pluralism-require-secularism-the-hedgehog-review"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:06:15","slug":"does-religious-pluralism-require-secularism-the-hedgehog-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/does-religious-pluralism-require-secularism-the-hedgehog-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Religious Pluralism Require Secularism? &#8211; The Hedgehog Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"dropCap\">D<\/span>espite predictions  to the contrary, religion is not disappearing. By now many proponents of the  secularization thesis\u2014the argument that with modernity the world is becoming  less and less religious on a path to a religion-free world\u2014have admitted their  error and acknowledged that religion is well and thriving in contemporary life.  The rapidly increasing and deepening religious pluralism in many places around  the world raises the problem of how people of radically different faiths can  live together.<\/p>\n<p>The essays gathered  here suggest that secularism might be part of the answer. Secularism, they  argue, is not anti-religious or simply the absence of religion; rather it  involves the attempt to create a public realm shaped by respect for others and  concern for their rights\u2014a place in which deep differences can coexist. For a  secular state is (ideally) one that enforces no one religion; treats people of  all religions with equal respect; and preserves a public space for the free  exercise and expression of religions. Secularism, in these pages, is thus  construed as the friend of all religions, and the foe or champion of none.<\/p>\n<p>What emerges from  these pages is actually not one secularism, but rather a range of secularisms\u2014French,  American, Indian, and others\u2014that can be compared, evaluated, and improved  upon.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><small>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iasc-culture.org\/publications_article_2010_Fall_pluralism_secularism.php\">www.iasc-culture.org<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite predictions to the contrary, religion is not disappearing. By now many proponents of the secularization thesis\u2014the argument that with modernity the world is becoming less and less religious on a path to a religion-free world\u2014have admitted their error and acknowledged that religion is well and thriving in contemporary life. The rapidly increasing and deepening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-religious-pluralism","tag-secularism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}