Word: secularism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warfare is actually far more than a battle for children's minds. Some conservatives are using public classrooms as a staging ground from which to advance to the political arena their moral crusade against gay rights, abortion, cultural diversity and any other national inclination that they perceive as a secular evil...
...Wonderful Life." But oddly enough, it has more in common with that movie than the Mad magazine spreads it visually resembles. Uplifting to the last, the film maintains a child's-eye-view of the wonder of Christmas. And like those television specials it is a very secular celebration of Christmas. With the blending of the holiday with Halloween, it's probably just as well that Burton steers clear of the disturbing religious overtones of the plot...
...gave a very upbeat talk about Turkey's role as a bridge between East and West," Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Thomas D. Mullins said. "She stressed Turkey's role as a secular democracy in a world threatened by fundamentalism," he said...
Gates explained that he had designed theprogram this way because, in The Souls of BlackFolk, Du Bois concerned himself with both thespiritual and the secular and was the firsthistorian to canonize African American Spirituals...
...mosque and state, theology and politics. Of course, not all Muslims are what Americans call fundamentalists. The term is not used in Islam, which calls the zealots "Islamists" or "activists." Says Mary Jane Deeb, an expert on Islam at the American University in Washington: "The majority of Muslims are secular in the sense that they see that politics and their beliefs can be separate." Nor do all so-called fundamentalists condone the use of violence and terrorism to achieve their goals...