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The Meaning of Secularism

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Charles Taylor



It is generally agreed that modern democracies have to be �secular.� There is perhaps a
problem, a certain ethnocentricity, involved in this term. But even in the Western context
the term is not limpid and may in fact be misleading. What in fact does it mean? There
are at least two models of what constitutes a secular regime. Both involve some kind of
separation of church and state. The state can�t be officially linked to some religious confession,
except in a vestigial and largely symbolic sense, as in England or Scandinavia. But
secularism requires more than this. The pluralism of society requires that there be some
kind of neutrality, or �principled distance,� to use Rajeev Bhargava�s term.
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If we examine it further, secularism involves in fact a complex requirement. There
is more than one good sought here. We can single out three, which we can classify
in the categories
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