laicism

Those values are freedom, the rule of reason, laicism and solidarity.

He was a promoter of laicism and colonial expansion.

Since 1950, he was an energetic defender of Atatürk's reforms, democracy and laicism.

Bloch's strong laicism resulted in a mild ideological myopia about the Church.

In European laicism, it has been argued that secularism is a movement toward modernization, and away from traditional religious values (also known as secularization).

Since 1939 he strongly vowed for laicism in the society, in accordance with "the liberal traditions of Argentina".

The correspondent word laicism (also spelled laïcism) is sometimes used in English as a synonym for secularism.

Many of Atatürk's reforms were brought forward to establish laicism, such as the establishment of a modern, secular school system.

Those who attack Lagendijk attack this Parliament and they seek to sacrifice democracy upon the altar of an aggressive laicism.

Nacionalismo opposed secular education, accusing it of being "Masonic laicism", and supported clerical control of education.

He was erroneously regarded as the intellectual father of Islamic laicism or secularism (the separation of state and religion, not the secularization of society).

The monument, seen today as a symbol of modernism, democracy and laicism in Turkey, serves as a place of some official ceremonies and public gatherings.

It is a rationalist, anti-clerical laicism, differing from that in most predominantly Christian societies, but similar to the concept of laïcité in France.

The Kemalist principle of laicism is not against moderate and apolitical religion, but against religious forces opposed to and fighting modernization and democracy.

Dictionaries ordinarily translate laïcité as secularity or secularism (the latter being the political system), although it is sometimes rendered in English as laicity or laicism.

These principles of secularism (laicism) and nationalism reduced Islam's role in the everyday life of individuals and emphasized Turkish identity as the main source of nationalism.

The Progressives were the party of the National Militia, the jury trial, laicism, and of national sovereignty and the broadening of the franchise under census suffrage.

Together with the Radicals, who wished to install laicism, the SFIO was a component of the Left Block (Bloc des gauches) without to sit in the government.

In this regard, it is much like France, on whose system of laicism its founder Kemal Atatürk modelled the rules on religion when he reformed his country in the early 20th century.

We do not want a Europe that defines itself as the stronghold of the Christian West, but one based on laicism, where there is a place for everyone - Christian, Muslim, Jew or atheist.

He expressed his opposition to modernity in his book Die Pest des Laizismus und ihre Erscheinungsformen [The Plague of Laicism and its Forms of Expression] (1932).

He accepted and supported the Turkish nationalism and laicism and had close relationships with Turkish nationalist intellectuals such as Veled Chelebi (İzbudak) and Nedjib 'Asim (Yazıksız).

Kemalist laicism does not imply or advocate agnosticism or nihilism; it means freedom of thought and independence of the institutions of the state from the dominance of religious thought and religious institutions.

But in a country that has been committed since 1905 to strict separation of church and state, proponents of laicism wondered why taxpayers should have to pay for the 6,000 to 7,000 police and gendarmes needed for crowd control.

As Laura Randall in his book Changing Structure of Mexico points out, most of the conflicts between citizens and religious leaders lie in the Church's overwhelming lack of understanding of the role of the state's laicism.