secularism

IPA: sˈɛkjʌɫɝɪzʌm

Neutrality towards all religions.
The political belief in the separation of church and state, i.e. the position that religious belief should not influence public and governmental decisions.

Examples of "secularism" in Sentences

He objects: "What sort of secularism is it that regards reading of Sanscrit texts as a political act?"
The exact term "secularism" has a negative connotation in the Arab world, so we prefer use the term "civil."
While I know many don't believe secularism is a good thing (and perhaps it isn't), it does serve to foster economic opportunity.
The result of equating dharma with religion in India has been disastrous: in the name of secularism, dharma has been subjected to the same limits as Christianity in Europe.
Holy Church, is our philosophy of life and we hold that any attempt to educate a youth in what we call secularism is a retrogression to a lower level than that of pre-Christian culture.
When the Vatican's secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, invited him to speak, he told him that New York had "particular challenges of what he called secularism," Archbishop Dolan said.
He would have prophetically foreseen the emergence of a strong current of materialism and secularism from the core orientations of the preceding era which had been marked by the spirit of the enlightenment and in which the traditional values of the old world view had already begun to be shaken.