ABSTRACT
The most notable advances constitutionally are to be found in the United States constitution and that of India, where separation of religion and the State are laid down. Still, though in principle the separation of worldview and State is procedural it does in fact restrict demands that a religion may make. If worldview-pluralism is to be entrenched in a given nation, then the State's rituals have to avoid expressing a particular religious or other worldview. The two senses of secular (pluralistic and non-religious) are sometimes confused because the State sometimes makes its icons non-religious to deal with the pluralism of religious beliefs. The defence of worldview-pluralism must occasion if necessary the deployment of some degree of violence. Nevertheless, worldview-pluralism demands something in the doctrinal dimension of nationalism, and something too in the mythic dimension. Worldview-pluralism is an ideal which is highly relevant to the mingled populations of most countries.
