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As part of our blog series: Perspectives: Religion and Public Life Sarah Vadar looks at the relationship between religion and secularism and argues that there are no simple answers to questions about the role that religion and secularism play or should play in the public sphere. Perspectives: Religion and Public Life is a series of short blogs on questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, you can find the rest of the series by clicking here.

As part of our blog series: Perspectives: Religion and Public Life, Dr. Hakan Yilmaz examines the relationship between the European Union and Turkey. In particular he draws on an opinion poll conducted in the EU to discuss attitudes towards Turkey’s membership. Perspectives: Religion and Public Life is a series of short blogs on questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, you can find the rest of the series by clicking here.

As part of our blog series: Perspectives: Religion and Public Life Caspar Melville, editor of New Humanist, discusses the role of religion in public life from a secularist and humanist perspective. Perspectives: Religion and Public Life is a series of short blogs on questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, you can find the rest of the series by clicking here. I imagine that sometimes it must be confusing for religious believers, in the West at least, to know quite what is expected from them in a secular society.

This year, I was presented with an amazing opportunity to learn about different faiths and cultures by having video conferences with other schools around the world. This opportunity came in the form of Tony Blair Faith Foundation’s Face to Faith program, in which adolescents throughout the world can video conference with their peers in different schools worldwide. I got the chance to video conference with three schools and talk about religion, gender roles, and other controversial topics currently being debated on the global stage.

On Sunday morning August 5th, a 40 year old man walked into a Sikh Temple with a gun and shot six members of the community, wounded 3 others and terrified a whole community.

As part of our blog series: Perspectives: Religion and Public Life Father Nabil Haddad, Founder and CEO of the Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Research Center and Jordanian Melkite priest examines how secular values may be upheld in countries with religions based on theocratic understandings of governance. Perspectives: Religion and Public Life is a series of short blogs on questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, you can find the rest of the series by clicking here.

As part of our blog series: Perspectives: Religion and Public Life, , Dr. Hakan Yilmaz explores secularisation and democratization in the Islamic World. Perspectives: Religion and Public Life is a series of short blogs on questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, you can find the rest of the series by clicking here. On paper and in principle, secularisation supplies a fertile ground for the achievement of real national sovereignty and, by implication, democracy.

The headline 'Mo-mentous' summed up the tabloid press verdict on the Olympics. The wide-eyed, victorious face of Muhammad 'Mo' Farah, a British Somali track athlete, was the defining picture, a stake through the heart of the anti-immigrant, racist politics of the extreme Right in Europe. Dracula will doubtless drag himself out of his coffin but it was a moment to be savoured. Like a pint of newly poured Guinness, the media froth coming off the Games has taken a long time to settle.

Despite heavy rain, phase two of Faiths Act in Sierra Leone has started its next phase of training religious leaders to reach out and equip people in their local communities with life-saving information about malaria prevention. The excitement built up as we starting receiving recommendations from the Inter Religious Council of Sierra Leone and religious leaders about those who should be trained in the second phase. In just two days, we had over 50 faiths leaders for the 45 slots for the orientation.

As part of our blog series: Perspectives: Religion and Public Life, , Dr. Hakan Yilmaz explores the factors behind the relationship between secularism and democracy in Turkey. Perspectives: Religion and Public Life is a series of short blogs on questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, you can find the rest of the series by clicking here. In Turkey, as opposed to the other secularist regimes in the Islamic world, secularism and democracy have found a modus vivendi.