A Short History of Secularism

What does it mean to call Western society ''secular''? What is ''secularism''? And how should we understand the concept of ''secularism'' in international relations, particularly the clash between radical Islam and the West? The Latin term from which the word ''secular'' is derived - ''saeculum'' - means ''generation'' or ''age'', and came to mean that which belongs to this life, to the here and n...