Anti-secularism definition
Anti-secularism is by no means as coherent a political pro- gramme or doctrine as multiculturalism but it has attained formid- able resonance as the name of an intellectual impulse on issues of minority equality, statehood and as a credible voice against reli- gious nationalism and communal violence. Since it is so nebulous, contested and diffuse, I will only sketch its most salient character- istics to help explain why it cannot be reductively described as multiculturalism’s derivative distant cousin.