A secular state is an idea pertaining to secularity, whereby a state is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither...

these countries, secular humanist organizations typically receive state funding according to the same funding formulas used to provide state funding to religious...

official religion (also known as confessional state), while not a secular state, is not necessarily a theocracy. State religions are official or government-sanctioned...

them. State atheism in these cases is considered as not being politically neutral toward religion, and therefore it is often considered non-secular. The...

A secular religion is a communal belief system that often rejects or neglects the metaphysical aspects of the supernatural, commonly associated with traditional...

A unitary state is a (sovereign) state governed as a single entity in which the central government is the supreme authority. The central government may...

of a state with no official religion or religion-based laws. Today, some Muslim-majority countries define themselves as or are regarded as secular. Many...

organizations and the state. Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church-state separation) and...

a morally neutral exercise of state power. The Islamic scholar Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im has argued for a secular state built on constitutionalism, human...

term pseudo-secularism is used to describe individuals who claim to be secular but may display biases towards a particular religion, whether consciously...

Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while...

India as a Secular State is a book written by Donald Eugene Smith and published by Princeton University Press in 1963. The book was described as a "classic"...

especially emphasised. It supports the separation of religion and state. Moreover, secular liberals are usually advocates of liberal democracy and the open...

A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control from...

the state, but do not claim that they are instruments of divine revelation. A related phenomenon is a secular government co-existing with a state religion...

Secular Buddhism, also called agnostic Buddhism and naturalistic Buddhism, is a modern, western movement within Buddhism that leans toward an "exclusive...

subordinated to a more powerful controlling state. Alternative terms for a client state are satellite state, associated state, and dominion, condominium, self-governing...

A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. They...

Christian state stands in contrast to a secular state, an atheist state, or another religious state, such as a Jewish state, or an Islamic state. The Armenian...

Turks, while ethnic Kurds are the largest ethnic minority. Officially a secular state, Turkey has a Muslim-majority population. Ankara is Turkey's capital...

A puppet state, puppet régime, puppet government or dummy government is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside...

consciousness. He believed that political emancipation required a secular state, and such a state did not leave any "space" for social identities such as religion...

The Janata Dal (Secular) (transl. People's Party (Secular); abbr. JD(S)) is an Indian political party recognised as a state party in the Indian states...

particular religious consciousness since political emancipation requires a secular state; Bauer assumes that there is not any "space" remaining for social identities...

An associated state is the minor partner or dependent territory in a formal, free relationship between a political territory (some of them dependent states...

A nation state, or nation-state, is a political entity in which the state (a centralized political organization ruling over a population within a territory)...

of its citizens. The secular-versus-religious debate in Israel in particular has focused debate on the Jewish nature of the state; another aspect of the...

all advanced industrial societies" have become more secular in recent decades while also stating that people with religious beliefs represent a growing...

A vassal state is any state that has a mutual obligation to a superior state or empire, in a status similar to that of a vassal in the feudal system in...

Secularity, also the secular or secularness (from Latin saeculum, 'worldly' or 'of a generation' or 'century'), is the state of being unrelated or neutral...