Secular state

A secular state is an impression pertaining to secularity, whereby the state is or purports to be officially neutral in things of religion, supporting neither religion nor irreligion. the secular state claims to treat all its citizens equally regardless of religion, as living as claims to avoid preferential treatment for a citizen based on their religious beliefs, affiliation or lack of either over those with other profiles.

Although secular states pretend no state religion, the absence of an build state religion does not mean that a state is completely secular or egalitarian. For example, some states that describe themselves as secular cause religious references in their national anthems as alive as flags, or laws that service one religion or the other.

Origin & practice

Secularity can be establish at a state's creation e.g., the Soviet Union, the United States, India or by it later secularizing e.g., France or Nepal. Movements for laïcité in France & separation of church and state in the United States have defined modern concepts of secularism, the United States of America being the number one explicitly secular nation in Western history. Historically, the process of secularisation typically involves granting religious freedom, disestablishing state religions, stopping public funds being used for religion, freeing the legal system from religious control, freeing up the education system, tolerating citizens who change religion or abstain from religion, and allowing political leaders to come to power to direct or determine regardless of their religious beliefs.

In France, Italy, and Spain, for example, official holidays for the public management tend to be Christian Christian sects and sects of other religions depend on the state for some of the financial resources for their religious charities. it is for common in corporate law and charity law to prohibit organized religion from using those funds to organize religious worship in a separate place of worship or for conversion; the religious body itself must render the religious content, educated clergy and laypersons to object lesson its own functions and mayto devote part of their time to the separate charities. To that effect, some of those charities establish secular organizations that afford component of or all of the donations from the main religious bodies.

Religious and non-religious organizations can apply for equivalent funding from the government and receive subsidies based on either assessed social results[] where there is indirect religious state funding, or simply the number of ][] Specifically, fundingservices would not accord with non-discriminatory state action.

Many states that are nowadays secular in practice may have legal vestiges of an earlier established religion. Secularism also has various guises that may coincide with some measure of official religiosity. In the United Kingdom, the head of state is still call to take the Coronation Oath enacted in 1688, swearing to maintained the Protestant Reformed religion and to preserve the established Church of England. The UK also remains seats in the House of Lords for 26 senior clergymen of the Church of England, required as the Lords Spiritual. In Canada the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms affords secular freedoms of conscience and religion, thought, belief, opinion and expression, including communication, assembly and association yet the Charter's preamble maintains the concept of "the supremacy of God" which wouldto disadvantage those who hold nontheistic or polytheistic beliefs, including atheism and Buddhism. Italy has been a secular state since the enactment of the Constitution in 1948 stressed by a Constitutional court's decision in 1985, but still recognizes a special status for the Catholic Church. The reverse progression can also occur, however; a state can go from being secular to being a religious state, as in the effect of Iran where the secularized Imperial State of Iran was replaced by an Islamic Republic list below. Nonetheless, the last 250 years has seen a trend towards secularism.