Nr. 2/2011CATERINA GAGLIARDI The Institut Catholique de Paris and the unprecedented secular training of imams: the University Diploma “Interculturalité, laïcité et religions” in the context of French secularism
Nr. 2/2008FRANCESCO AMARELLI, MICHELE SCUDIERO, MARIO TEDESCHI, PATRICK VALDRINI Tavola rotonda sul libro di Mons. Rino Fisichella, Nel mondo da credenti. Le ragioni dei cattolici nel dibattito politico italiano
Table of contents
1. Premise: the two risks that one runs when speaking generically of "values of the secular State" - 2. First risk: imagining that the secular State, for this very reason, has values of its own... - 3. (continued):... Second risk : to exclude that the secular State, for this reason, has its own founding values - 4. Insufficiency of the traditional notion of secularism, as a mere separation of the sphere of the sacred from that of the profane - 5. The need to decline the concept of secularism according to sensitivity contemporary, as a guarantee of the "freedom of conscience" of every citizen - 6. The universal fundamental values of the constitutional state. Stellar conception of the Constitution and personalist principle - 7. Secularism, secularism, confessionism: freedom of conscience as the ultimate crest of distinction - 8. Conclusions: the values of the secular state as constitutional values
Keywords
secularism; constitutional state; religious freedom; freedom of conscience
