Nästan religiös. Katedraler och sekulära teologier by Mattias Martinson

“…Kristensson Uggla’s Christian theolog-ical critique of the idea of God’s omnipotence, together with his emphasis on the cross and the kenotic aspects of Christian faith, becomes a backdrop to a theological interpretation of secular humanist attempts to relate to the loss of religion and the need for new notions of self-transcendence and love. …”
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A Critical Book Review of Civil Society and Democracy in the Middle East by SeyedSaeid ZahedZahedani

“…Mostly at this phase, Islamic societies resist development because of its secular, humanist, and experimental sciences bases.  Thereby, development confronts challenges in Islamic countries.  …”
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Membaca Ulang Pendidikan Humanis (Literacy Pendidikan Humanis) by Yuni Suprapto

“…The genre of the Humanist education is devided to the several namely: religious Humanist education, secular Humanist education era and the Humanist genre which was delivered by the figures of national education. …”
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Finitude, temporality and the criticism of religion in Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free (2019) by David Biernot, Christoffel Lombaard

“…Whilst on the one hand this article elaborates the shortcomings of Hägglund’s criticism of religion, on the other hand it also strives for an empathetic reading of his secular humanist philosophy. The authors place this conversation within the post-secular religio-cultural climate currently rising internationally, along with some further contextualising remarks. …”
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Human behavior from an Islamic perspective: interaction of nature, nurture and spiritual dimension by Abdullah, Fatimah

“…On the one hand, it contends that certain corrupt behavior is predetermined by psychological or biological factors from conception- while on the other, it explains behavior as a simplistic series of reinforcements from contingencies and conditioned responses to environmental stimuli. This secular humanistic outlook has produced an ethical relativism that is the current trend in today's world. …”
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The need to return to the Qur'anic paradigm of integrated development and integrated knowledge by Hassan, Mohd. Kamal

“…Summit on Climate Change on the 18th of December 2009, much to the dismay of environmentalist organizations and the poor countries of the world, is yet another global symptom - in our humble observation - of the larger crisis of contemporary secular world order and a secular humanistic civilization grounded in the ontology of Kufr (disbelief) and the epistemology of autonomous reason. …”
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Humanism Reformed: Narrative and the Divine-Human Encounter in Paul Ricoeur by Glenn Whitehouse

“…Ricoeur’s thought is interpreted as a Christian humanism in which religious inquiry and secular humanistic thought coexist and mutually enhance one another. …”
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St. John Paul II’s Natural Law Legacy and International Human Rights Culture of Human Dignity – A Road to Universal Brotherhood and Peace by Ján Figel

“…Highlighting secular and faith-based sources including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Vatican II Council Declaration, the text emphasizes human dignity as the meeting point for religious and secular humanists. It underscores the belief in the innate value of individuals and their equality in dignity, derived from the Judeo-Christian tradition. …”
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Investigating the Moral, Social, Economic, Cultural and Political Rights of Women and the Family in the Human Rights Charter (Islamic Scholarship with Secular Science in the Eyes o... by Zahra Mosavi, Tayebeh Mahrosadeh, Mohammad Seyfi

“…In the end, the result was that the way to cure and to escape the moral harm arising from the human rights charter and women's rights conventions that are themselves based on secular, humanistic and communist views is Islamic and ethical.…”
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Ideological Apparatuses of Shari’a and Reproduction of Domination: A Critique on the Book The Circles of Fear by Reza Najafzadeh

“…“Circles of Fear” is based on the text-based historical hermeneutics and Abu Zayd has a post-secular humanistic approach. In “Circles of Fear” he has used critical approaches such as subaltern theory and critique of ideological apparatuses within the framework of historical structuralism, and in addition to his Qur'anic views, he has also developed a kind of critical political sociology. …”
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