Challenge Of Secularism

Question 1

What is secularism?

Answer 1

Secularism is a term that may mean a belief that religion should not be involved in government or public life, or that no one religion should have a superior position in the State. It often entails a belief in a public space and a private space, and that religion should be restrained from public power.

Question 2

What is secularisation?

Answer 2

Secularisation is a theory developed in the 1950s and 1960s from Enlightenment thinking, arguing that religious belief would progressively decline as democracy and technology advanced. Sociologists now doubt such a linear decline.

Question 3

What does secular mean?

Answer 3

Secular means not connected or associated with religious or spiritual matters. It is used colloquially in widely differing ways by atheists, pluralists, and those who are anti-religion. Historically, it distinguished priests who worked in the world from those who belonged to religious communities.

Question 4

What is wish fulfilment according to Freud?

Answer 4

According to Freud, wish fulfilment is the satisfaction of a desire through a dream or other exercise of the imagination.