Word: secularize
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...British way of life.” This evidently rash reaction to Williams’ comments was also implicitly Islamophobic and intolerant. It was indicative of a reluctance to embrace plurality in favor of the textbook adherence to either the authority of the Anglican Church or the norm of secular culture...
...House of Delegates to strip Nichol of the state-funded portion of his salary. In his letter of resignation, Nichol explicitly addressed the controversies of his tenure, including his removal in October 2006 of a Christian cross from the college’s Wren Chapel, which hosts secular events as well as Christian services. “The decision was likely required by any effective notion of separation of church and state,” Nichol said in his statement. William and Mary alumnus James McGlothlin rescinded his $12 million donation to the William and Mary endowment after the cross...
...eight years in power. The other big losers were Pakistan's fundamentalist religious parties, who have lost control in the North West Frontier Province, which they had ruled since 2002. Frustrated with the religious parties' alliance with Musharraf and with their mismanagement of the NWFP economy, voters opted for secular opposition parties instead...
...into a culture of passivity empowered by infotainment and a bottom-line corporate mentality. In this new culture, Jacoby says, scope is sacrificed for sales and science is increasingly drowned amidst the white noise of politicized junk-thought. Even the habit of reading appears increasingly obsolete. The strictly secular, intellectual merit of Jefferson, Paine, and Emerson that founded the country has given way to the lionization of celebrities and the perpetuation of anti-intellectual ideals (namely creationism and gender stereotyping) that most other modernized nations have long left behind. Only a stunting of American culture, Jacoby contends, could possibly account...
...Both the secularist hardliners and the overzealous AKP must face the fact that democracy is messy. Turkey must learn to trust in its institutions and civil society, and be tolerant of difference. My grandparents' generation mustered great courage to make Turkey into a modern country. Now my generation, both secular and veiled, has to gather that same dedication to the pressing task of making it democratic...