SECULARISM AND RELIGIOSITY IN ALI KUSHCHI

Abstract

In the West, in the Middle Ages, the church strongly opposed the development of science, scholars were punished by the Inquisition, as a result of the enlightenment movement in Western Europe, ideas of atheism, indifferentism and secularism were formed on the basis of the idea of separation from any religion and the complete denial of religiosity. During the regime of aggressive atheistic ideology in relation to religious values, secularism and religiosity were opposed to each other. Currently, in a developed democratic state, this view has completely changed. Secularism is not opposed to religion, no faith is denied, and any religious faith is regarded as a natural social phenomenon, freedom of conscience is guaranteed by law for everyone, regardless of nationality or citizenship