"It is intriguing that we have some notable challenges to the political establishment that are not coming from a traditional American religious place but from a surprisingly secular tradition," said David Voas, head of the social science department at University College London.
Where did this secular tradition go?
The law to prohibit "obvious" signs of religious affiliation merely reinforces France's secular tradition, he insisted.
If anything, the judgment will reinforce France's resolve to protect its secular tradition.
She believes we undervalue this secular tradition and the Greeks' part in it.
They saw his faith in the context of personal freedom, not as a threat to Turkey's secular tradition.
The country is small and socially more homogenous, with a strong secular tradition and a more cohesive educated class.
Against secular tradition, he suggests allowing public finance for mosques, to cut French Islam off from foreign sponsors.
IT IS a city that, first as Byzantium, then as Constantinople and now as Istanbul, symbolises the country's proudly secular tradition.
One reason is their century-old secular tradition, which fiercely defends the separation of faith and state, and makes most French people uneasy about conspicuous religion.
Mackie called "The Miracle of Theism," and Sean Faircloth's "Attack of the Theocrats!," a chillingly well-researched unmasking of the contemporary political threat to America's noble secular tradition.
