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/sˈɛkjələrˌɪzəm/ Listen

noun

Secularism n.

The state or quality of being secular; a secular spirit; secularity.

The tenets or principles of the secularists.

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Etymology of 'Secularism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Secularism" Quotes from Famous Books

... holds sway. It might have visited the wandering tribes of Central Asia and, piercing its way down through the passes of the Himalayas, reared its temples on the banks of the Ganges, the Indus and the Godavery. It might have traveled farther east to deliver the swarming millions of China from the cold secularism of Confucius. Had it done so, missionaries from India and Japan might have been coming to England and America at the present day to tell the story of the Cross. But Providence conferred on Europe a blessed ...

— The Life of St. Paul • James Stalker

... There is undoubtedly a close connection between the labour movement and democracy, between the struggle for industrial and the struggle for political emancipation, as there is a connection between both and Secularism, the frank form assumed among the working men by that which is concealed and conformist Scepticism among the upper class. In this respect the present industrial crisis resembles those of the past which as ...

— Lectures and Essays • Goldwin Smith