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“Separate the church and the state” reads a sign favoring political secularism Fresco by Sandro Botticelli showing Saint Augustine seated at a desk, holding a pen and book, with shelves of books and scientific instruments behind him. Martin Luther Portrait painting by Henriette Rath of John Calvin in profile, wearing a black cap and robe with a fur collar, gesturing with his right hand. John Locke Thomas Jefferson A person ascends the steps of the west facade of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C., with its tall columns and a round fountain in the foreground. Satirical 1905 cartoon cover from Le Rire showing a priest, a government official, and Marianne representing France, seated back-to-back under a sun labeled Separation of Church and State. Young woman wearing a pink hijab smiles thoughtfully while writing in a notebook at a table in a cafe. Kemal Atatürk

secularism: References & Edit History

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  • Charles Preston
    Charles Preston is Associate Editor for Religion at Encyclopædia Britannica.

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Add new Web site: The Ohio State University - Origins - Secularism, Past and Future. Oct 09, 2026
Media updated. Aug 17, 2026
Add new Web site: Humanists UK - What is secularism – and why does it matter? Jul 10, 2026
Add new Web site: American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Secularism and its discontents. Mar 12, 2026
Add new Web site: GGU Law Digital Commons - The Modern Concept of Secularism and Islamic Jurisprudence: A Comparative Analysis (PDF). Oct 10, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Secularism in America : A Brief History of Non-Religion Movement. Jun 07, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC Religion and Ethics - What is secularism? Apr 25, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - "Secularism" from the Last Years of the Ottoman Empire to the Early Turkish Republic. Mar 19, 2025
Add new Web site: The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale - A Conceptual Analysis of Secularism and its Legitimacy in the Constitutional Democratic State (PDF). Feb 06, 2025
Added a section discussing religion in public schools in the United States. Jul 30, 2024
Article thoroughly revised to reflect an expanded understanding of secularism, especially the association of the concept with statecraft. Jul 03, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Secularism is not the same as modernity. May 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Catholic Online - Secularism. Mar 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Sociology - Debating secularism: A liberal cosmopolitan perspective. Jan 25, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - secularism. Oct 20, 2023
Add new Web site: Social Science LibreTexts - Secularism and the Future of Religion. Dec 09, 2022
Add new Web site: Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale - Secularism. Sep 09, 2022
Cross-references to various articles added. Oct 30, 2019
Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Secularism. Oct 14, 2008
Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Secularism. Oct 14, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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