{"id":45,"date":"2011-03-02T11:57:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/contemporary-secularity-and-secularism\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:56:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:56:26","slug":"contemporary-secularity-and-secularism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/contemporary-secularity-and-secularism\/","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Secularity and Secularism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barry A. Kosmin, Founding director of the Institute for the Study  of Secularism in Society and Culture and research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College<\/p>\n<p>Secularism and its variants are terms much bandied about today, paradoxically, as a consequence of religion seeming to have become more pervasive and\u00a0influential\u00a0in public life and society worldwide. This situation poses a number of questions.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Contemporary Secularity and Secularism on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/17374718\/Contemporary-Secularity-and-Secularism\">Contemporary Secularity and Secularism<\/a> <object height=\"600\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=17374718&amp;access_key=key-2daxvzo7plyq4aguuf54&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\"><embed name=\"doc_66493\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17374718&amp;access_key=key-2daxvzo7plyq4aguuf54&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barry A. Kosmin, Founding director of the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture and research professor of public policy and law at Trinity College Secularism and its variants are terms much bandied about today, paradoxically, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/contemporary-secularity-and-secularism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}