Sebula

Ann Sebula, age 66, East Providence, RI View Details

Cities: East Providence RI, Barrington RI, Bristol RI Possible Relatives: David W Chalmers, John J Chalmers, Lillian E Chalmers

Ann Sebula, age 67, East Providence, RI View Details

Cities: East Providence RI, Barrington RI, Bristol RI Possible Relatives: Barbara Jean Chalmers, David W Chalmers, John J Chalmers

Barbara E Sebula, age 81, Weirton, WV View Details

Cities: Weirton WV, Streamwood IL, Prospect Heights IL

Andy Sebula, Westchester, IL View Details

Cities: Westchester IL

Janet Mary Leadbetter, age 58, Hope, ME View Details

Locations: Ware MA, Belchertown MA Possible Relatives: Kathy Hogan, Dorothy R Cebula

Corrine M Pepe, age 56, Tampa, FL View Details

Locations: Ware MA, Belchertown MA Possible Relatives: Kathy Hogan, Dorothy R Cebula

Cheryl Beth Sebula, age 48, Bellevue, PA View Details

Locations: Ware MA, Belchertown MA Possible Relatives: Kathy Hogan, Dorothy R Cebula

Jeffrey Paul Cebula, age 45, Belchertown, MA View Details

Locations: Ware MA, Belchertown MA Possible Relatives: Kathy Hogan, Dorothy R Cebula

Christopher J Cebula, age 42, Arlington, VA View Details

Locations: Ware MA, Belchertown MA Possible Relatives: Kathy Hogan, Dorothy R Cebula

Jennifer L Cebula, age 40, Mercer, PA View Details

Locations: Ware MA, Belchertown MA Possible Relatives: Kathy Hogan, Dorothy R Cebula

Secularism in Turkey

Secularism in Turkey defines the relationship between religion and state in the country of Turkey. Secularism/Laicism was first introduced with the 1928 amendment of the Constitution of 1924, which reread more...moved the provision declaring that the "Religion of the State is Islam", and with the later reforms of Turkey's first president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, which set the administrative and political requirements to create a modern, democratic, secular state, aligned with Kemalism. Such reforms have been historically controversial in a society that is mainly Sunni Hanafi.read less...

Secularism in India

With the Forty-second Amendment of the Constitution of India enacted in 1976, the Preamble to the Constitution asserted that India is a secular nation. However, the Supreme Court of India in the 1994 read more...case S. R. Bommai v. Union of India established the fact that India was secular since the formation of the republic. The judgement established that there is separation of state and religion. It stated "In matters of State, religion has no place. And if the Constitution requires the State to be secular in thought and action, the same requirement attaches to political parties as well. The Constitution does not recognize, it does not permit, mixing religion and State power. That is the constitutional injunction. None can say otherwise so long as this Constitution governs this country. Politics and religion cannot be mixed. Any State government which pursues nonsecular on policies or nonsecular course of action acts contrary to the constitutional mandate and renders itself amenable to action under Article 356". Furthermore, constitutionally, state-owned educational institutions are prohibited from imparting religious instructions, and Article 27 of the constitution prohibits using tax-payers money for the promotion of any religion.read less...

Secularism

Secularism is the principle based in secular humanism that seeks to conduct human affairs based on secular, naturalistic considerations. It is most commonly defined as the separation of religion fromread more... civic affairs and the state, and may be broadened to a similar position concerning the need to remove or to minimize the role of religion in any public sphere. The term "secularism" has a broad range of meanings, and in the most schematic, may encapsulate any stance that promotes the secular in any given context. It may connote anticlericalism, atheism, naturalism, non-sectarianism, neutrality on topics of religion, or the complete removal of religious symbols from public institutions.read less...

Secular Franciscan Order

The Secular Franciscan Order is the third branch of the Franciscan Family formed by Catholic men and women who seek to observe the Gospel of Jesus by following the example of Francis of Assisi. Secularead more...r Franciscans are not like the other third orders, since they are not under the higher direction of the same institute. Brothers and sisters of the Secular Franciscan Order profess to their own Rule, and Secular Franciscan fraternities can exist without the presence of the first or second Franciscan Orders. The Secular Franciscan Order was the third of the three families founded by Francis of Assisi 800 years ago.read less...

Secular ethics

Secular ethics is a branch of moral philosophy in which ethics is based solely on human faculties such as logic, empathy, reason or moral intuition, and not derived from belief in supernatural revelatread more...ion or guidance—the source of ethics in many religions. Secular ethics refers to any ethical system that does not draw on the supernatural, and includes humanism, secularism and freethinking. A classical example of literature on secular ethics is the Kural text, authored by the ancient Tamil Indian philosopher Valluvar.read less...

Secularism in France

Laïcité is the constitutional principle of secularism in France. Article 1 of the French Constitution is commonly interpreted as discouraging religious involvement in government affairs, especially read more...religious influence in the determination of state policies. It also forbids government involvement in religious affairs, and especially prohibits government influence in the determination of religion. Secularism in France does not preclude a right to the free exercise of religion.read less...