Word: secularize
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...women, or between those who reside in so-called red states and those who reside in blue states, but between those who attend church regularly and those who don't. Democrats, meanwhile, are scrambling to "get religion," even as a core segment of our constituency remains stubbornly secular in orientation, and fears - rightly, no doubt - that the agenda of an assertively Christian nation may not make room for them or their life choices...
...religion is rarely practiced in isolation; organized religion, at least, is a very public affair. The faithful may feel compelled by their religion to actively evangelize wherever they can. They may feel that a secular state promotes values that directly offend their beliefs. They may want the larger society to validate and reinforce their views...
...Task Force on General Education merely considers religion an important facet of the world that “Harvard’s graduates will confront in their lives both in and after college” and wants to help students “understand the interplay between religious and secular institutions, practices, and ideas.” Under the proposed requirement, students will presumably study the influence of religion in historical, scientific, and political contexts, and not theistic doctrine itself...
...public. King said that professors, who frequently engage in intellectual thought, would be more likely to question their own faith. Such questioning leads to defining themselves by those terms, she said. Others were surprised that professors are so faith-based. “Harvard has a reputation for liberal, secular professors” said President of the Harvard Secular Society Amanda L. Shapiro ’08. Shapiro, a sociology concentrator, added that most of her professors have presented religion in a way that “seemed pretty objective.” Gross said he could not compare...
...Reason and Faith” explores the interaction between religious and secular institutions...