ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author addresses the pressing issue of political secularism. His argument is that criticism of secularism is based on ethical and moral arguments conveyed through relatively homogenous Western societies at a religious level, which project a model of secularism clearly favoring certain religions, namely Christianity, as a universal model. For the author, instead of anchoring our analyses on the doctrinarian bases of certain Western states, we must learn from the normative practices of non-Western states that deal directly with highly socially and culturally diverse pluri-religious societies.
