Secularity or secularness (from Latin sæculum, 'worldly' or 'of a generation' or 'century') is the state of being unrelated to or neutral in regard to...

Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while...

A secular state is an idea pertaining to secularity, whereby a state is or purports to be officially neutral in matters of religion, supporting neither...

A secular religion is a communal belief system that often rejects or neglects the metaphysical aspects of the supernatural, commonly associated with traditional...

The "Secular" is a part of the Christian church's history, which even has secular clergy, since the medieval period. The distinction between secular and...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Secular Jew may refer to: A general epithet for Jews who participate in modern secular society and are not stringently...

secular in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Secular is an adjective describing something separate from religion. Secular may also refer to: Secular basis...

Christianity, the term secular clergy refers to deacons and priests who are not monastics or otherwise members of religious life. Secular priests (sometimes...

A secular resonance is a type of orbital resonance between two bodies with synchronized precessional frequencies. In celestial mechanics, secular refers...

some religious communities and states, and has historically influenced secular law. The scope of law can be divided into two domains: public law concerns...

The secular variation of a time series is its long-term, non-periodic variation . Whether a variation is perceived as secular or not depends on the available...

Secular inflation is a prolonged period of gentle or mild price increases. Secular, or chronic, inflation is creeping inflation that continues to persist...

The Janata Dal (Secular) (transl. People's Party (Secular); abbr. JD(S)) is an Indian political party recognised as a state party in the Indian state...

Secular ethics is a branch of moral philosophy in which ethics is based solely on human faculties such as logic, empathy, reason or moral intuition, and...

Secular theology is a term applied to theological positions influenced by humanism and secularism, rejecting supernaturalist metaphysical positions related...

In nuclear physics, secular equilibrium is a situation in which the quantity of a radioactive isotope remains constant because its production rate (e...

The Secular or Saecular Games (Ludi Saeculares) was an ancient Roman religious celebration involving sacrifices, theatrical performances, and public games...

economics, secular stagnation is a condition when there is negligible or no economic growth in a market-based economy. In this context, the term secular means...

Secular morality is the aspect of philosophy that deals with morality outside of religious traditions. Modern examples include humanism, freethinking...

The term "secular saint" has no strict definition, but generally refers to someone venerated and respected for contributions to a noble cause, but not...

Secular spirituality is the adherence to a spiritual philosophy without adherence to a religion. Secular spirituality emphasizes the inner peace of the...

Geomagnetic secular variation is the changes in the Earth's magnetic field on time scales of about a year or more. These changes mostly reflect changes...

The Secular Solstice is a secular humanist event started in New York City in 2011 by Raymond Arnold. It is celebrated annually on the winter solstice...

A Secular Age is a book written by the philosopher Charles Taylor which was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier...

life while fostering secular practices and supporting secular groups and individuals with values based on secular humanism. SecularHelp began as Atheist...

Secular or saecular (Latin saecularis, "of the ages") is a term usually understood as meaning "worldly" or "non-religious", but when contrasted with cloistered...

"Secular Haze" is a song by the Swedish rock band Ghost. The track was released as the lead single from the group's second studio album Infestissumam...

Secular paganism, alternately called naturalistic paganism or humanistic paganism, is an outlook upholding virtues and principles associated with modern...

body and recognized by the state, or it may be entirely secular, in which it is known as a secular marriage. Countries maintaining a population registry...

Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) (English: Indian People's Front), abbreviated HAM(S), is an Indian political party with a presence in Bihar. In Bihar...

The idea of want can be examined from many perspectives. In secular societies want might be considered similar to the emotion desire, which can be studied...

the host and producer of The Kyle Kulinski Show on his YouTube channel Secular Talk, co-host on the Kyle & Corin Podcast on the YouTube channel Corin's...

Secular Hymns is a 2016 studio album by American vocal jazz singer Madeleine Peyroux. It has received positive reviews by critics. Editors at AnyDecentMusic...

Secular Zionism is a variant of Zionism that advocates for the establishment and development of a Jewish homeland—primarily in Land of Israel—on the basis...

The Manipur Progressive Secular Alliance (MPSA) (formarly known as Secular Progressive Front (SPF) or Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA)) is a political...

The Secular Islam Summit was an international forum for secularists of Islamic societies, held 4–5 March 2007 in St. Petersburg, Florida. It was largely...

A secular hymn is a type of non-religious popular song that has elements in common with religious music, especially with Christian hymns. The concept...

The Secular Franciscan Order (Latin: Ordo Franciscanus Saecularis; abbreviated OFS) is part of the third branch of the Franciscan family formed by Catholic...

Secularization has different connotations such as implying differentiation of secular from religious domains, the marginalization of religion in those domains...

The Secular Right (Hebrew: הימין החילוני, Hayamin HaHiloni) is a hiloni political party in Israel. It was formed by Tiberias mayor Ron Cobi in June 2019...

multiculturalism issues. She was the founder of the British Muslims for Secular Democracy. She was also a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize. Yasmin...

Secular Buddhism, also called agnostic Buddhism and naturalistic Buddhism, is a modern, western movement within Buddhism that leans toward an "exclusive...

The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance is a collection of essays by the Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye. The collection was...

A secular building is a building for secular purposes. The term is used in fine arts and the cultural science, for example in the history of architecture...

The Secular Democratic Front (SDF) is an opposition front in the Indian state of Tripura consisting of the Left Front and the Indian National Congress...

Secular liberalism is a form of liberalism in which secularist principles and values, and sometimes non-religious ethics, are especially emphasised. It...

Secular education is a system of public education in countries with a secular government or separation between religion and state. Secular educational...

Cultural Muslims, also known as secular Muslims, nominal Muslims, non-practicing Muslims or non-observing Muslims, are people who identify as Muslim but...

The Secular Institute Pius X, or Pius X Secular Institute (ISPX), is a Catholic men's clerical secular institute of consecrated life of diocesan right...

The secular arm, in ecclesiastical law, is the legal authority of the civil power, the State, or any lay authority, invoked by the Church to punish offenders...

The National Secular Society (NSS) is a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and the separation of church and state. It holds that...

The Secular Student Alliance (SSA) is an American educational nonprofit organization whose purpose is to educate high school and college students about...

The Secular Requiem is a large-scale work by the British composer Russell Pascoe with text assembled by Anthony Pinching. It comprises fourteen sections...

The American Secular Union (ASU, also sometimes called the "American Secular Union and Freethought Federation") espoused secularism and freethought at...

Leicester Secular Society is the world's oldest Secular Society. It meets at its headquarters, the Leicester Secular Hall in the centre of Leicester, England...

until around 2010. Over the past several decades,[when?] the number of secular people has increased, with a rapid rise in the early 21st century, in many...

City University of New York, 49% of all American Jews identify as being secular while 22% of American Jews as of 2013 identify as having no religion.....

National Secular Conference (NSC) is an Indian political party from Kerala. P. T. A. Rahim is the state president of National Secular Conference (NSC)...

India as a Secular State is a book written by Donald Eugene Smith and published by Princeton University Press in 1963. The book was described as a "classic"...

The All India Secular Front (AISF), popularly known as Indian Secular Front (ISF), is an Indian political party founded by Abbas Siddiqui in 2021. Currently...

This is a partial list of notable secular humanists. Clark Adams (1969–2007): Former president of the Humanist Association of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada...

first political secular entity called the Hizb 'Almani (Secular Party) this name was later changed to the Wafd party. It combined secular policies with...

States is in the midst of a "culture war" between "traditionalists" and "secular-progressives". O'Reilly appeared on The Colbert Report to promote the book...

church cantata or sacred cantatas; other cantatas can be indicated as secular cantatas. Several cantatas were, and still are, written for special occasions...

The Grand Democratic Secular Front (GDSF) was a coalition of political parties in the Indian state of Bihar formed on 8 October 2020 after the merger...

Secular Pro-Life (SPL) is an American secular anti-abortion organization. SPL argues against abortion and conducts advocacy, including on university campuses...

The Secular Coalition for America is an advocacy group located in Washington D.C. It describes itself as "protecting the equal rights of nonreligious...

LifeRing Secular Recovery (LifeRing or LSR) is a secular, non-profit organization providing peer-run addiction recovery groups. The organization provides...

Secular Homeschooling was an American magazine for people who homeschool for reasons other than religion. It began as a quarterly, but became a bimonthly...

India Indira Congress (Secular) was a regional and nationalist political party in Rajasthan, India. All India Indira Congress (Secular) was formed when Sis...

whose members share in the spirit of some religious institute while in secular life, lead an apostolic life, and strive for Christian perfection under...

the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria contains a valuable collection of secular and ecclesiastical treasures covering over a thousand years of European...

Jacques André Rousseau (born 3 December 1971) is a South African academic, secular activist and social commentator. Rousseau was born in Cape Town in 1971...

and was initially drafted by Jawaharlal Nehru. The words "socialist", "secular" and "integrity" were later added during the Indian emergency by Indira...

The Scottish Secular Society is a vocal secular organisation in Scotland and is based in Glasgow. It promotes the separation of church and state and educates...

defended the autonomy of science, freedom of thought, secularism, and secular ethics. Arguments for atheism range from philosophical to scientific to...

organizations and the state. Conceptually, the term refers to the creation of a secular state (with or without legally explicit church-state separation) and to...

Leicester Secular Hall is a Grade II listed building in Leicester, England. It was built in 1881 for the city's Secular Society. The Leicester Secular Hall...

The Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites (Latin: Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Saecularis; abbreviated OCDS), formerly the Secular Order of Discalced...

Church, a secular institute is one of the forms of consecrated life recognized in Church law (1983 Code of Canon Law Canons 710–730): A secular institute...

National Secular Lobby is an Australian pro-secular organisation, founded in July 2017 and officially launched in January 2018. It aims to promote secular principles...

A Secular Humanist Declaration was an argument for and statement of support for democratic secular humanism. The document was issued in 1980 by the Council...

The secular movement refers to a social and political trend in the United States, beginning in the early years of the 20th century, with the founding...

Secular Organizations for Sobriety (SOS), also known as Save Our Selves, was a non-profit network of autonomous addiction recovery groups. The program...

Kerala Janapaksham (Secular) was a registered political party in the Indian state of Kerala. It was founded by P. C. George in 2019. It had an MLA from...

in 1582, it has since been adopted, as a matter of convenience, by many secular and non-Christian countries, although some countries use other calendars...

The Secular Therapy Project, sometimes abbreviated to STP, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2012 by Dr. Darrel Ray as part of its parent...

celebrated by non-Christians as a secular holiday. For example, 61% of British people celebrate Christmas in an entirely secular way. Christmas has also become...

ideology today. Zionism initially emerged in Central and Eastern Europe as a secular nationalist movement in the late 19th century, in reaction to new waves...

The DMK-led alliance (abbr. DMK+), also known as Secular Progressive Alliance, is an Indian regional political party alliance in the state of Tamil Nadu...

in a particular direction over time. Analysts classify these trends as secular for long time-frames, primary for medium time-frames, and secondary for...

The Janata Party (Secular) was an Indian political party founded by Raj Narain in July 1979. On 16 July 1979, Chaudhary Charan Singh assumed its leadership...

Hunsur Assembly constituency in Mysore district. He represents Janata Dal (Secular) Party and won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election from Hunsur...

until his death in 1938. He led sweeping reforms, turning Turkey into a secular, industrialising nation. Ideologically a secularist, republican and nationalist...

observance of the Christian day of worship. Since then, they have come to serve secular purposes as well. Blue laws commonly ban certain business and recreational...

Congress (Secular) is a political party in Kerala, India. It is a residual faction of Indian Congress (Socialist) that was formed in 1978. It is currently...

Mizoram Secular Alliance (MSA), formerly known as Mizoram Secular Force (MSF) is a political alliance in Mizoram. It was launched ahead of the 2004 Lok...

Party in 2014, the CPI(M) had welcomed ideas of the broad understanding of secular and democratic forces. The first signs came when in the Siliguri municipal...

Secular coming-of-age ceremonies, sometimes called civil confirmations, are ceremonies arranged by organizations that are secular, which is to say, not...

coexist tolerantly. Massimo Rosati says that in a post secular society, religious and secular perspectives are on even ground, meaning that the two theoretically...

Augustinians or Canons Regular, whilst those who did not were known as secular canons. In the Latin Church, canons are the members of a chapter, that...

Secular Thought (1887–1911) was a Canadian periodical, published in Toronto, dedicated to promoting the principles of freethought and secularism. Founded...

The Indian Secular Largest Assembly of Maharashtra (abbreviated as ISLAM) is a regional political party based in Malegaon, in the Nashik district of Maharashtra...

Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is...

Nonsectarian institutions are secular institutions or other organizations not affiliated with or restricted to a particular religious group. Many North...

religious groups. Funerals have both normative and legal components. Common secular motivations for funerals include mourning the deceased, celebrating their...

Kerala Congress (Secular) is a registered regional political party in the Indian state of Kerala. It was a faction of Kerala Congress led by P. C. George...

Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) is a Mumbai-based Catholic institution. As of 2008 the General Secretary was Joseph Dias, who believes that “India is not...

Secular Review (1876–1907) was a freethought/secularist weekly publication in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain that appeared under a variety...

— the secular state — even as she criticizes secular governments that essentialize religion's violent propensities". Tanner states that secular regimes...

Left Coordination Committee is an alliance of left, democratic, secular and progressive parties in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Communist parties,...

David Watkin, for example writes about secular Gothic architecture in present-day Belgium: "However, it is the secular architecture, the guild-halls and town...

politically neutral toward religion, and therefore it is often considered non-secular. The majority of communist states followed similar policies from 1917 onwards...

Congregation first arrived in Africa in 1922. The Secular Order of the Servants of Mary (Servite Secular Order) is an approved Catholic organization of lay...

Waking Up). He also launched a meditation app called Waking Up, promoting secular mindfulness practices. Harris has debated with many prominent figures on...

The Centre d'action laïque (CAL; English: Centre for Secular Action) is the umbrella organisation of numerous secularist associations in French-speaking...

Secular National Dravida Party, was a political party in the Indian state of Kerala. The party was founded on 7 January 2004 by elements of the Ezhava...

The Romanian Secular-Humanist Association (Romanian: Asociația Secular-Umanistă din România, abbreviated as ASUR) is a non-governmental organization established...

date, it is now in worldwide secular use as the de facto standard. Alongside the use of the Gregorian calendar for secular matters, there remain several...

S. L. Bhojegowda belongs to the Janata Dal (Secular). https://www.ndtv.com/karnataka-news/bjp-wins-3-of-6-karnataka-legislative-council-seats-jds-con...

Masjid demolition in 1992. He joined the Janata Dal and later Janata Dal (Secular) but was unable to secure a seat in later elections. He advocated for unity...

Sebastion, used the title "Archdruid of Wiltshire, Chosen Chief of the Secular Order of Druids, Conservation Officer for the Council of British Druid...

The Rashtriya Samajwadi Party- Secular is a political party in India. The RSP-Secular is led by party president Sandhya Singh "EntranceIndia". EntranceIndia...

Edinburgh Secular Society is an organisation, based in Edinburgh, dedicated to promoting secularism across Scotland; it was established on 28 October...

boys and girls aged two to eighteen in Montevideo, Uruguay. It serves secular and bilingual pre-school, primary, secondary and the pre-university education...

Krishnarajpete Assembly constituency in Mandya district. He represents Janata Dal (Secular) Party and won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. Manju...

(secular cantata) BWV 36.2 (previously 36a) – Steigt freudig in die Luft (secular cantata) BWV 36.3 (previously 36b) – Die Freude reget sich (secular cantata)...

commissioned by Augustus. It was sung by a choir of girls and boys at the secular games in 17 BC. It is written in Sapphic meter and follows the themes of...

principles associated with paganism while maintaining a secular worldview. Humanistic, naturalistic, or secular pagans may recognize deities as archetypes or useful...

The Secular Party of Australia is a minor Australian political party, founded in January 2006 and registered as a federal political party in 2010. It...

The British Secular Union was a secularist organisation, founded in August 1877, primarily as a response to what its founders regarded as the "dictatorial"...

There are current eleven public holidays in Bolivia. Both secular and some Christian holidays are recognized....

(translation: Progressive Socialist Party (Lohia)), earlier known as Samajwadi Secular Morcha, was a political party formed by former cabinet minister of Uttar...

Haredim, non-Haredi Orthodox, Karaite, Ethiopian, Reform, Conservative, and secular Jews, as well as adherents of other religions in Israel. The religious...

Claims of the Paranormal (founded by Kurtz in 1976) and the Council for Secular Humanism (founded by Kurtz in 1980). The Center for Inquiry Inc was registered...

The Rashtriya Janshakti Party- Secular (Rashtriya Janshakti Party- Secular), is a political party in India. The RJP is led by party president Sanjay Siwal...

controversial. Laypeople constitute most members of Opus Dei, and the rest are secular priests governed by a prelate elected by specific members and appointed...

The Secular Progressive Front was a political alliance in Manipur, India, which formed before the 2002 Manipur Legislative Assembly election and ruled...

counterweight to the secular aristocracy, characterized by stronger loyalty to the king and a more pronounced service orientation than both the secular and the ordinary...

The Democratic Secular Party is an Indian political party which seeks support from the country's Islamic population. The party ran a number of candidates...

To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine is a 2010 non-fiction book by former Speaker of the House and conservative activist Newt Gingrich...

full-length albums before it officially ended in 2011. A new group called Secular Joy was formed later that year in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Mark Edwards...

The Central Secular Council (Dutch: Centrale Vrijzinnige Raad (CVR), full name Centrale Vrijzinnige Raad der niet-confessionele levensbeschouwelijke Gemeenschappen...

blending the social and political power of secular government with religious power, or of making secular authority superior to the spiritual authority...

Grenada is mainly a secular but Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being minority. Due to secular nature of the Grenada's constitution...

10 June 2009. "A Trojan Horse: Logotherapeutic Transcendence and its Secular Implications for Theology." Mater Dei Institute. p. 5. Boghossian, Peter...

describes any conflict (political, ideological, or social) between the secular government and the religious authorities of a society. The term also describes...

faith. The concept of religious liberty includes, and some say requires, secular liberalism, and excludes authoritarian versions of secularism. Freedom...

and state affairs in Turkey Secular education – System of public education in countries with a secular government Secular humanism – Life stance that...

650 votes and defeated his nearest rival, A. Manjunath of Janata Dal (Secular) by a margin of 11,839 votes. He was first elected as an MLA from Magadi...

A cultural icon is a person or an artifact that is identified by members of a culture as representative of that culture. The process of identification...

the Freethought ranks". She initiated the First Secular Church of Portland, followed by its Secular Sunday School. Katie Kehm was born in Warsaw, Illinois...

an official religion (also known as a confessional state), while not a secular state, is not necessarily a theocracy. State religions are subject to advantageous...

In Catholic canon law and secular law, sui iuris (/ˈsuːaɪ ˈdʒʊərɪs/), also spelled sui juris, refers to legal self-rule. The term "church sui iuris" is...

The Society of Clerks Secular of Saint Basil (SSB) was an organization of Western Rite Orthodox Christians which was absorbed by the Antiochian Orthodox...

multiplicities. The term secular function has been used for what is now called characteristic polynomial (in some literature the term secular function is still...

Sheila Gribben Liaugminas is an American journalist with experience in both secular and religious journalism. Her writing covers a variety of topics, with...

Nuriyya Islamic Institute is an Islamic and secular education institution located in Tamale, the Northern Region of Ghana. It is one of the most popular...

public secular institutions, public separate schools, and privately managed independent schools in Ontario. All public schools in Ontario (secular and separate)...

and in April 2011 by Bloomsbury with the subtitle A Secular Bible. The book was designed as a secular alternative to religious text, and to be read as a...

theism should be opposed. The term has had a range of applications. In secular contexts, it typically refers to direct opposition to the belief in any...

Husbandry and Wakf in the Dharam Singh cabinet. He was the Janata Dal (Secular) state president at the time of his death and leaves behind a wife and...

earlier represented Madhugiri from 2008 to 2013. She belongs to Janata Dal (Secular) party. She is married to H. D. Kumaraswamy. Anitha Kumaraswamy was born...

Secular Schools Ireland was a patron body for national schools in Ireland. It was a voluntary organisation seeking to establish the country's first secular...

Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury as a religious learning community for secular canons. The college was seized by Henry VIII in 1542 and many of the buildings...

Left and Secular Democratic Front was a pre-poll alliance of political parties in the Indian state of Manipur, which was formed ahead of the 2017 Manipur...

& his younger brother Kumaraswamy. His political party is Janata Dal (Secular). H. D. Revanna was booked in a kidnapping case in April 2024 after a 20-year-old...

Thoreau[how?] as he was preparing to write his Walden. John Dryden's short "Secular Masque" (1700) mocks contemporary society through the medium of the Classical...

Humanist Association of Germany) is an organisation to promote and spread a secular humanist worldview and an advocate for the rights of nonreligious people...

list of Public holidays in Jamaica, which includes Christian holidays and secular holidays. New Year's Day, 1 January (public holiday) Ash Wednesday, Between...

The Secular Institute of Schoenstatt Fathers (ISch) is a Catholic religious institute founded by the German Pallottine priest Josef Kentenich, as a part...

འབྲུག་སྡེ་སྲིད་, Wylie: 'brug sde-srid; also called Deb Raja) was the title of the secular (administrative) rulers of Bhutan under the dual system of government between...

Rajiv, his men, and his regime, New Delhi : Roli Books, 1991, 433 p. A Secular Agenda: For Saving Our Country, for Welding It, New Delhi : ASA Publications...

from a transcendent and divine source – in contrast to man-made law or to secular law. According to Angelos Chaniotis and Rudolph F. Peters, divine laws...

12 public holidays in Barbados, which includes Christian holidays and secular holidays. Holidays in Barbados are also referred to as bank holidays locally:...

Apart from his hundreds of church cantatas, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote secular cantatas in Weimar, Köthen and Leipzig, for instance for members of the...

M. R. Manjunath is an Indian Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS) politician from Karnataka, and a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly for Hanur Assembly...

centre-right party, its stated aims are creating a "sovereign, democratic, secular, socially-oriented and unitary state with a stable economy". The statute...

Feinde (Enemies, blow the alarm), BWV 205.2 (formerly BWV 205a), is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. The cantata was intended for...

author who focuses on topics such as workplace organizational culture, secular sexuality, and the treatment of religion-induced trauma. He is a public...

Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason was a 1990 book by the English Anglican philosophical theologian John Milbank. It has been argued that...

has faced death threats. The British Humanist Association and National Secular Society sponsored the launch and support the new organisation. The activists...

Calvados), France-June 3, 1699, Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a French missionary (secular priest) who was sent to North America during the time of King William's...

The Rural Institute for Development Education [1](RIDE) is a secular, non-governmental organization dedicated to empower poor and disadvantaged residents...

The Garib Janta Dal (Secular) (Hindi: गरीब जनता दल (सेक्युलर), abbreviated GJD(S)) is a political party in Bihar, India. The party was founded by Lok...

regional parties such as Biju Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (Secular) and Janata Dal (United). It first came to power in 1989, after cases of...

University of Leicester. In 2018, she wrote Jehovah's Witnesses and the Secular World. Her book was reviewed in The Journal of Religion, which stated that...

religious teachings. Secular faith refers to a belief or conviction that is not based on religious or supernatural doctrines. Secular faith can arise from...

allegations that these schools, in particular boys schools, provide little to no secular education, thus initiating an ongoing campaign to bring about improvement...

Devanand Fulasing Chavan is a leader of Janata Dal (Secular) and he was a member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly 2018 elected from Nagthan Assembly...

answers to be memorized—a format that has been used in non-religious or secular contexts as well. The term catechumen refers to the designated recipient...

group called Openly Secular was formed to encourage nonreligious and non-theistic Americans to be open about their personal secularity. The group states...

administrative and political requirements to create a modern, democratic, secular state, aligned with Kemalism. Nine years after its introduction, laïcité...

a Rusk State sanatorium. The fifth is a live recording of Ghost's own "Secular Haze" from the band's performance of 28 July 2013 at Music Hall of Williamsburg...

Catholicism portal The Apostolic Union of Secular Priests is an association of Roman Catholic secular priests (i.e. priests who are not monastics and...

Atheists is also part of the Alliance of Secular Humanist Societies, which is connected to the Council for Secular Humanism. The organization publishes a...

of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He specializes in the sociology of substantial secularity and is the author...

observance to secular ethnic identity. There is no consensus, but common themes emphasize ancestry, culture, and community belonging, even for secular Jews and...

2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election representing Janata Dal (Secular) Party. Patil is from Devara Hippargi. His father Basanagouda Patil is...

The historical debate over whether Malaysia is a secular state or an Islamic state dates back to the Federation of Malaya's independence from the British...

A. B. Shah (1920–1981) was the founder-president of the Indian Secular Society. The organization had its headquarters in Pune in Shah's lifetime but has...

refer to sovereign and secular power, as contrasted with spiritual power. The temporal power (simply), the state (polity) or secular authority, in contrast...

embracing a thoroughgoing secularity and basing their Jewishness entirely in ethnicity and secular Jewish culture. Possibilities for secular Jewishness include...

(born 29 May 1975) is a Pakistani-born Canadian atheist ex-Muslim and secular humanist writer and podcaster who explores the challenges of Muslims who...

branches, each with its own Rule of Life: 1) The Third Order Secular, now called the Secular Franciscan Order, who belong to local fraternities. These members...

and feudalism, she played a particularly important role in developing a secular nursing service, in a country where nursing had previously been the preserve...

organizations which provide moral support for naturalist, atheist, agnostic, secular humanist, freethinking, Bright, or irreligious and non-confessional citizens...

Jewish religious law; while only 23% of traditionalist Jews and 1% of secular Jews supported such a move. At the time, Haredi Jews constituted 8% of...

Henda Ayari (born 4 December 1976) is a French writer, feminist and secular activist. Previously a Salafi Muslim, in 2015 she founded the association...

character as a state has generated internal and external debate on the secular–religious status quo (though Israel is not a Halakhic state), the status...

and secular organizations in the Greater Los Angeles Area" Rational Response Squad Secular Coalition for America Secular Student Alliance Secular Therapy...

There are also discussions of evil in other philosophical fields, such as secular ethics and evolutionary ethics. However, the problem of evil is usually...

Indian National Congress, the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Bharatiya Janata Party. The Janata Dal (Secular) and the Indian National Congress led coalition...

life, and infused culture. Since the advent of secularization, wholly secular Jewish culture emerged likewise. There has not been a political unity of...

Congress. Jan Adhikar Party (L) fought on 64 seats as part of Socialist Secular Morcha which comprises Samajwadi Party, Nationalist Congress Party, National...

in religious and cultural traditions, it has long been celebrated as a secular holiday as well.[citation needed] Prayers of thanks and special thanksgiving...

(Pachi) Shapira (Hebrew: אברהם שפירא; born 1935) is an Israeli scholar of secular Jewish culture. He was a professor of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University...

The air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650...

The Great Apostasy Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History is a 1909 book by James E. Talmage that summarizes the Great Apostasy from...

election in 2016, he created his own party named as Kerala Janapaksham (Secular). Formerly, he was the member of political parties like KC, KC(J), KC(M)...

previously followed a secular lifestyle or a less frum form of Judaism. The baal teshuva movement is a description of the return of secular Jews to religious...

Member of Parliament (MP) in the Lok Sabha. A member of the Janata Dal (Secular), he has been serving as the party's president since 1999 and has been...

in Turkey consists of various religious beliefs. Turkey is officially a secular state and various surveys claim Islam as the country's most common religion...

tried to deliberately have every song have its own signature." The song "Secular Haze" came about when a Ghoul writer came to the rest of the band saying...

personality and writer. He is known as Dandy, has been called a "secular chronicler" and a "secular lion" in the media in Bulgaria. Lyubomir Milchev was born...

Universidad Rural is a private, secular university in Guatemala. List of universities in Guatemala Official site v t e...

criticism through the associated Socratic method. The word "perennial" in secular perennialism suggests something that lasts an indefinite amount of time...

2013 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election representing Janata Dal (Secular) defeating B. N. Chandrappa of the Indian National Congress by a margin...

majority religion in Azerbaijan, but the country is considered to be the most secular in the Muslim world. Various reports have estimated that 97.3% (CIA, 2020)...

judgment, as the default attitude. Agnosticism is often associated with a secular lifestyle that resembles atheism in practice, but it does not necessarily...

liberal democrats, non-communist socialists, moderate conservatives, and secular nationalists, to achieve the common goal of protecting the constitution...

religious orthodox influence in the city and since his election has led a secular revolution calling for the opening of local businesses and operation of...

holidays, which include national memorials, religious celebrations, and secular holidays of Bengali origin. The traditional Bengali calendar, known as...

recognition as a "secular life stance organisation"". National Secular Society. 8 May 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2018. "Humanist/Secular Weddings". Free Society...

among people in the country. New Zealand is considered one of the most secular nations in the world, with the proportion of the population reporting "no...

compromise would reduce the tensions between the secular and religious communities. Because the terms "secular" (hiloni) and "traditional" (masorti) are not...

Burton "Melancholy" – 3:27 "I Don't Mind" – 4:13 featuring Van Dyke Parks "Secular Praise" – 4:52 featuring The Blind Boys of Alabama "A Good Day" – 4:47...

in around 926. At this time the early shrine was guarded by a group of secular priests. Upon exhumation of the body, a miracle was discovered. All the...

in Baghdad. It was owned by Chaldean Catholic Church Assyrians but was secular in outlook. "Echo of Babylon". World Digital Library. Retrieved 1 May 2020...

Centrist Orthodoxy underpinned by the philosophy of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular knowledge") is prevalent. In Israel, Modern Orthodoxy is dominated by Religious...

Orders, Congregations, Societies of Common Life in the Manner of Religious, secular institutes and Societies of Apostolic Life. Several Latin institutes have...

source of secular music of the Portuguese Renaissance and the largest one of Portuguese secular Renaissance music. It contains 130 secular villancicos...

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom is a book by philosopher Martin Hägglund, which pursues a critique of the religious ideal of eternity and...

August 1948) is an Indian politician and was the president of Janata Dal (Secular) Karnataka. He was formerly an Indian National Congress (INC) politician...

Janata Dal (Secular). The Indian Socialist Janata Dal was established to resolve the conflict of the Kerala state unit of the Janata Dal (Secular) after its...

Tajikistan is secular by law. The Constitution states, "religious associations shall be separate from the state and shall not interfere in state affairs...

Humanity (from French Religion de l'Humanité or église positiviste) is a secular religion proposed by Auguste Comte (1798–1857), the founder of positivist...

of Muslim countries may be grouped as: secular systems, mixed systems, and classical Sharia systems. Secular systems are those where Sharia plays no...

former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006. Born in Tel Aviv, Brizon gained a BA in...

Secular Shrine Theory (Japanese: 神社非宗教論, Hepburn: Jinja hishūkyōron) was a legal and political theory arising in Japan during the 19th and early 20th...

of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in 2025. De Lancie became an outspoken secular activist and was a featured speaker at the 2016 Reason Rally and at CSICon...

affiliated with the Franciscans. "Franciscan Saints, Blesseds, Feasts" (PDF). Secular Franciscans USA. May 20, 2026. Retrieved May 20, 2026. Habig, Fr Marion...

narratives of the secular museum, examined the museum as a sacred space. In 2015, Alba published The Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sacred Secular Space. Through...

churches) rejected any secular authority over the church, the Magisterial Reformation argued for the interdependence of the church and secular authorities. As...

their own conclusions. The primary product of Internet Infidels is the Secular Web website, infidels.org. Its Modern Library section includes contemporary...

two types: canonesses regular, who follow the Rule of St Augustine, and secular canonesses, who follow no monastic rule of life. In the 21st century, the...

Hiloni (Hebrew: חִלּוֹנִי; plural hilonim; Hebrew: חִלּוֹנִים, lit. 'secular') is a social category in Israel, designating the least religious segment...

Karnataka Legislative Assembly election as a member of the Janata Dal (Secular). After 2008 elections he contested as a JDS candidate for Tumkur Rural...

former politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006. Born in Petah Tikva, Golan gained a BA in...

Sonja Albertine Jeannine Eggerickx (born 8 February 1947) is a Belgian secular Humanist who was president of the International Humanist and Ethical Union...

Company of Propagation of Secular Culture (Polish: Towarzystwo Krzewienia Kultury Świeckiej) is an association created in 1969 from the merger of the...

vary between societies in two predominant dimensions: traditional versus secular-rational values on the vertical y-axis and survival versus self-expression...

drama and narrative prose. It also includes substantial works covering secular and technical sciences and the arts. Some of these subjects include: law...

political Islam as a national modern understanding of Islam shared by secular and Islamist actors. The terminology which is used for the phenomenon of...

which aired on Channel 4 from 2011 to 2020. It is about the Goodmans, a secular middle-class Jewish family who live in suburban London and is centred on...

dedicated to a democratic agenda to work together for a democratic and secular Iranian government. In a presentation at the Washington Institute for Near...

The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics (Allen & Unwin, 274pp) is a 2008 book by Professor Clive Hamilton. This is a philosophical book related...

1983 Code of Canon Law under canons 607–709. The other form is that of secular institutes, in which the members live in the world, and work for the sanctification...

Company directorate, a position he held until 1996. Shalgi joined the secular-liberal party Shinui, and served as chairman of its secretariat between...

Legislative Assembly from Hassan constituency representing Janata Dal (Secular). Prakash is from Hassan. He is the son of former MLA H. S. Prakash. He...

of Nablus, held on January 16, 1120, was a council of ecclesiastic and secular lords in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. The council was convened at...

Israel, the term status quo (or the secular–religious status quo) refers to a political understanding between secular and religious political parties not...

Torat Ha-Adam (human, or secular knowledge). While both components are necessary, Wessely argues that the acquisition of secular education must precede...

forms of expression, the secular arts became increasingly important; until the late 15th century, both religious and secular arts flourished. After the...

urged young religious Jews to support efforts to settle the land, and the secular Labour Zionists to give more consideration to Judaism. Kook saw Zionism...

fully efficacious until confirmation is received. Various secular organizations also offer secular coming-of-age ceremonies as an alternative to Christian...

National Cancer Survivors Day is a secular holiday celebrated on the first Sunday in June primarily in the United States of America. The day is meant...

music. Secular music, often state-sponsored, was ubiquitous in daily life and featured in a variety of ceremonies, festivals, and theatre. Secular vocal...

Policy and Prospect magazines. He served on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America. In 2010, Hitchens published his memoir Hitch-22...

who leaves his religiously devout community in Brooklyn to experience secular life in New York City. The film was written and directed by Adam Vardy...

national umbrella organisation for free-thinking, atheist, humanist and secular student societies in the United Kingdom. Its aim is to provide a national...

is an award presented annually in the United Kingdom by the National Secular Society in "recognition of an individual or an organisation considered...

Church from secular or the temporal power, that is, the freedom to accomplish its spiritual mission without interference from any secular power. Libertas...

5 July 1967), is an Indian politician and founder of Garib Janta Dal (Secular). He has served in 14th Lok Sabha as MP of Gopalganj from 2004 to 2009...

even if no sanction is actually applied. The term has been used in both secular and canon law in Europe since ancient times. The word stems from the Latin...

Samoa is mainly a secular Christian majority country, with adherents of Islam being a minority. The introduction of Islam into the country began centuries...

000 secular poems and had four books of poetry published, as well as two best-selling autobiographies. Additionally, she co-wrote popular secular songs...

values that respects science, secular education, sustainability, kindness, peace and democracy". The nonprofit provides secular support to at-risk populations...

the Secular Faction (itself a recent breakaway from Shinui). The faction received 600,000 shekels in party funding (transferred from Hetz, the Secular Faction's...

The Left and Secular Alliance was a pre-poll alliance of political parties in the Indian state of Manipur. The alliance was formed ahead of the 2014 Indian...

The original manifesto originally arose from religious humanism, though secular humanists also signed. The central theme of all three manifestos is the...

halakha ("traditional Jewish law") that are relevant to non-religious or secular law. In addition, the term refers to an academic approach to the Jewish...

government, the states shall adopt the republican, representative, democratic, secular, and popular form of government, with the free municipality as the basis...

independent of religion: "We need these human values. I call these secular ethics, secular beliefs. There’s no relationship with any particular religion....

work's libretto, written by Christian Friedrich Haupt. The music to this secular birthday cantata by Bach is lost. It has been speculated from the surviving...

Chamarajanagar constituency of Karnataka and was a member of the Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) political party. He was a member of National Commission for Scheduled...

observant and unaffiliated Jews and hilonim (secular Israeli Jews). Some scholars, including some secular and Reform Jews, describe the Haredim as "radical...

Marguerite-Bourgeoys operates secular Francophone schools in Verdun, while Lester B. Pearson School Board operates secular Anglophone schools in Verdun...

Academy of Humanism, established in 1983, is a programme of the Council for Secular Humanism. It was established to recognize great humanists and disseminate...

awareness of related issues, sponsoring secular education projects, and facilitating interaction among secular groups and individuals. Atheist Alliance...

[kantsoˈnetta]; pl. canzonette, canzonetti or canzonettas) is a popular Italian secular vocal composition that originated around 1560. Earlier versions were somewhat...

Gunnar Roland Tjomlid (born 3 August 1974) is a Norwegian skeptic, secular humanist blogger, and author. Tjomlid was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania,...

Kumar is an Indian politician belonging to the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular). He is currently a member of the Bihar Legislative Assembly from Atri...

of a crime could claim that they were outside the jurisdiction of the secular courts and be tried instead in an ecclesiastical court under canon law...

artists. Looker composed all of the music for Extra Life's 2008 debut, Secular Works, which featured Looker alongside drummer Ian Antonio, violist Karen...

occasionally incorporated. Because it is not part of secular legal systems, when a case overlaps with secular courts its judgment is not always recognized by...

1-2% join groups promoting such values. Nonetheless, secular congregations have emerged. Secular Americans are complex and not always devoid of religious...

decision is notable for upholding a school’s freedom of religion in a secular state, which sought to restrict it. In 2008 Paul Donovan, the principal...

AIJD was launched on December 11, 2002, by several leaders of Janata Dal (Secular) and Janata Dal (United) in Karnataka, including the main JD(U) leader...

legal system is largely secular. Sharia law governs only family law for Muslim residents, while non-Muslims in Kuwait have a secular family law. For the application...

and lived there until his death at 43. His works, such as the poem Canto Secular, often deal with Paraguayan themes and he remains an important figure in...

the Gen.secretary, Senior vice-president and President of Janata Dal (Secular) during multiple times. Joseph was a professor at St. Thomas College in...

laudamus apod. (23) Stationes etc. (17) Requiem (13) Offertoria (10). Secular works (20): symphonies, concerto for violin and orchestra, nocturnes, duets...

became rector of the seminary. As a poet, he wrote both religious and secular verse in Albanian and Greek, and has the honour of having composed the...

Jugendfeier ("youth ceremony") is a secular coming of age ceremony for German 14-year-olds. It originated among the secular societies in the 19th century as...

Drange, Theodore M. (1998). "Atheism, Agnosticism, Noncognitivism". Secular Web Library. Internet Infidels. Retrieved 7 April 2007. Berman, David (1990)...

or celebrant is someone who officiates (i.e. leads) at a religious or secular service or ceremony, such as weddings (marriage officiant), funerals (burial...

Foreign". There is no parish church, although the building still stands in secular use. The parish also includes Bowler's Town and Springfield. The parish...

away from Janata Dal (Secular). It merged with Janata Dal (United) on 29 December 2014. The Kerala unit of the Janata Dal (Secular) is a part of the CPI...

sembiante, Maite Beaumont Entry in Treccani 2007 Michael Talbot Aspects of the Secular Cantata in Late Baroque Italy 2009 - Page 126 "In his Commentary, Crescimbeni...

of the few examples in the dynamics of the Solar System of a so-called secular perturbation of an orbit, i.e. a perturbation that continuously increases...

It was advocated for by liberal press, as public, free, compulsory and secular education. A congress convened in 1881, which gave La Ligue its federal...

equations, when regular perturbation approaches fail. The method removes secular terms—terms growing without bound—arising in the straightforward application...

speaker, or debate participant, for local secular organizations and university groups as part of the Secular Student Alliance Speakers Bureau. In the summer...

married, living a Christian life with a Dominican spirituality in the secular world. They find inspiration in the spiritual path taken by many saints...

While drawing on these historical models, fraternal orders generally serve secular purposes: functioning as social clubs, cultural organisations, and providers...

since the 1989 elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Janata Dal (Secular) conceded defeat, finishing second and third, respectively. The tenure...

Singaporean journalist and activist for youth, oppressed literature and secular schools in the Middle East. She is a contributing editor for Spectator...

Sabha from Kolar Lok Sabha constituency. He is a member of Janata Dal (Secular). "Kolar (SC) election results 2024 live updates: JDS' M Mallesh Babu wins"...

coalition of forces with nationalist, liberal-democratic, socialist, bazaari, secular and Islamic tendencies, that mobilized to successfully campaign for the...

celebrated by Muslims (and therefore defined by the Lunar Hijri calendar). Secular observances which are common to all religions are defined by the Hebrew...

lit. 'Tomorrow'), officially Machar, The Washington Congregation For Secular Humanistic Judaism, is a Humanistic Jewish congregation located in the...

whether the care provider follows a religious tradition or operates from a secular framework. [citation needed] The term "pastoral care" has evolved from...

been described as a manual for working out one’s own epistemological and secular ethical beliefs. The book sets out to address what the authors see as a...

Despite being a secular union, it decided to join the French Confederation of Christian Workers (CFTC), in preference to the secular but left-wing General...

the Kingdom of Jerusalem and roughly corresponded geographically to the secular Lordship of Oultrejordain. According to William of Tyre, who calls him...

territories of Canada. Irreligious Canadians include atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists. The surveys may also include those who are deists, spiritual...

Election as Independent. He however launched a new political party 'Indian Secular Largest Assembly of Maharashtra' or 'I.S.L.A.M.' on October 20, 2024, also...

considered the only preserved secular codex from the Hohenstaufen era, the oldest extant book of conveyances from a secular lordship and the oldest European...

English village of Sawston in Cambridgeshire. Selsingen was under the secular governance of the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, established in 1180....

independent candidate without contesting the seat. The Congress–Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) alliance contested the 2019 Indian general election in Karnataka...

known as a secularist speaker, was corresponding secretary of the American Secular Union, and was described by a correspondent of The Truth Seeker as a "feminine...

opposition from established religious organisations and secular institutions. In Western nations, a secular anti-cult movement and a Christian countercult movement...

as the first speculative theologians of Islam; they were supported by a secular aristocracy who sought freedom of action independent of the Caliphate....

as the Company of Saint Ursula or officially the Secular Institute of Saint Angela Merici, is a secular institute of consecrated women in the Catholic Church...

technologies. Secular stagnation refers to "a condition of negligible or no economic growth in a market-based economy". In this context, the term secular is used...

Islamic scholars of high standards, aiming to include both religious and secular education provisions. The Islamic education is split into two courses:...

National Harmony Memorial Park is a private, secular cemetery located at 7101 Sheriff Road in Landover, Maryland, in the United States. Although racially...

was an Indian politician from Karnataka state, belonging to Janata Dal (Secular) party. He was Deputy Chairman and Member of the Karnataka Legislative...

C. S. Puttaraju is an Indian politician belonging to the Janata Dal (Secular) party. He was the last MLA from Pandavapura constituency in Karnataka, from...

(AHA) is a non-profit organization in the United States that advances secular humanism. The American Humanist Association was founded in 1941 and currently...

ideology and instead adopted a centrist social democratic stance with a secular outlook. In September 2013, Yeddyurappa announced that the party would...

writer, he addressed various topics in his writings, both religious and secular. Modern historians view him as a reliable source. Orderic was born on 16...

India since its independence in 1947 has been a secular country.[citation needed] The secular values were enshrined in the constitution of India. India's...

ancient system of parishes, which for centuries were the principal unit of secular and religious administration in most of England and Wales. Civil and religious...

Charan Singh. It was founded on 26 September 1979 by merging Janata Party (Secular), Socialist Party (Limaye) and Orissa Janata Party. Charan Singh was elected...

various parties.On 14 April 2015, the RJD, Janata Dal (United), Janata Dal (Secular), the Indian National Lok Dal, Samajwadi Party, and Samajwadi Janata Party...

Culture or, in Yiddish, der Alveltlekher Yidisher Kultur-kongres) is a secular organization founded[where?] in 1948 to promote Yiddish culture throughout...

prevalence of mistrust in moral perceptions of atheists found in even secular countries and among atheists. Because atheism can be defined in various...

history, philosophy, and creativity, the Posen Foundation seeks to offer secular Jews an entrée into Jewish life and learning. The Posen Foundation works...

events for the Humanist Association of Las Vegas and Southern Nevada, the Secular Student Alliance, and the American Humanist Association. She was defeated...

Historically, the same shape was used for elite secular vessels, and many individual examples have served both secular and liturgical uses over their history,...

(United) faction was a distant second winning only 63 seats. The Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) faction of former prime minister Deve Gowda also bit dust winning...

in South Australia on 25 April 1896, and dealt with matters relating to secular and religious education. The referendum was held concurrently with the...

Secular Cantata No. 2: A Free Song (October 16, 1942) is a cantata for chorus and orchestra by William Schuman, using text by Walt Whitman, that was awarded...

general terms suspending all jurisdiction of chapters of regulars and seculars so long as there were vicars Apostolic in England. According to Bernard...

(orders and religious congregations, both of men and of women, as well as secular institutes) and societies of apostolic life, regarding their government...

Free Thought (PAFT) (Polish: Polski Związek Myśli Wolnej (PZMW)) was a secular movement, founded in 1926 by a group of former activists of the Polish...

lit. 'Arrow', also an abbreviation for Hilonit Tzionit, חילונית ציונית, "Secular Zionist") was a secularist political party in Israel. Hetz was formed in...

The original SPLM Manifesto outlined New Sudan as a proposed united and secular Sudanese state. The vision of 'New Sudan' was developed by John Garang...

characterizes a large portion of Iranian diaspora, and replaced a pro-Western secular but authoritarian monarchy with an anti-Western Islamic republic based...

group which claimed that the Concordat in Alsace-Moselle contradicted the secular nature of the French Republic. Under the Concordat, religious education...

politician and former member of Karnataka Legislative Council from Janata Dal (Secular). Karnataka Legislative Council (2003). M. Srinivas. Karnataka Legislative...

Inter-Christian conflicts in Lebanon were sub-conflicts between Christian or secular militias but heavily composed of Christians during the Lebanese Civil War...

Gurmitkal Assembly constituency in Yadgir district representing Janata Dal (Secular). He won the 2023 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election. Sharanagouda...

Subsequently, the Indian National Congress with 65 members and Janata Dal (Secular) with 58 members formed a coalition to run the government with Dharam Singh...

specific occasions of the liturgical year of the Lutheran Church, and secular cantatas. Bach's earliest cantatas were written possibly from 1707, the...

madrigal, or madrigal-like piece of music, with a sacred rather than a secular text. Most examples of the form date from the late Renaissance and early...

God while arguing that ecclesiastic authority should have no role in a secular, democratic state. Ethics equates God with nature, arguing for a view of...

World Hello Day is a secular holiday observed annually on November 21, to express that conflicts should be resolved through communication rather than...

term "secular" was first applied in the United States "as an elaborator intended to amplify disapproval, rather than as a qualifier". Secular humanism...

rooted strictly in religion and instead may be a cover for the underlying secular power, ethnic, social, political, and economic reasons for conflict. Other...

government than other religious groups do. The constitution establishes a secular framework to separate church and state. Government figures in 2020 suggested...

Taylor. As in later works, the singer-songwriter mixed criticism of general secular society, for things such as empty materialism and selfishness, with criticism...

and practices for Muslims, Christians, Yazidis and Sabean-Mandaeans. The secular Iraqi Communist Party was the country's largest movement between the 1940s...

dust” and “are sullied by flies,” one of the earliest expressions of a secular outlook in Serbian letters. In the dedication of his 1768 oration to Metropolitan...

reformists like Ali Abdel Raziq and Mahmoud Mohammed Taha have advocated a secular state in the sense of political order that does not impose any single interpretation...

(1848–1921) that the Knights had forged it to create a legal basis for their secular possessions, however this position has been seriously called into question...

Colegio Madrid is a private, secular, coeducational school in Mexico City, Mexico. It was founded on 21 June 1941 by the Junta de Auxilio a los Republicanos...

Advance of Reforms and Opportunities), is an independent, nonprofit and secular think tank. Grupo FARO was founded in Ecuador in 2004. It was established...

(especially Catholicism) and the Republican Party, but groups such as Secular Pro-Life and Democrats for Life of America hold anti-abortion and anti-euthanasia...

Tibetan Buddhist leaders and secular rulers, such as the Mongols, Manchus, and Chinese authorities. In this relationship, the secular patron (yon bdag) provides...

M. J. Appaji Gowda (20 June 1951 - 2 September 2020) was a Janata Dal (Secular) political activist and member of the Karnataka Legislative Council. He...

taking a compromise position between a purely Islamic caliphate and a secular, nationalist republic. The term is currently used in the official name...

representative of the constituency from 2013 to 2018 as a member of the Janata Dal (Secular), following which he resigned to join the Indian National Congress and...

John Goodman (1590–1642) was a Welsh Jesuit novice and secular priest active in England. He was born in Denbighshire and graduated from St John's College...

Brighton-based choir of around 45 SATB voices singing a wide range of sacred and secular works from Gregorian chant to Broadway musicals. The choir has charitable...

scrutiny under the Free Exercise Clause, whenever they treat any comparable secular activity more favorably than religious exercise." During the COVID-19 pandemic...

Buddhists. The designation has different meanings in Hinduism, Buddhism and secular contexts. Acharya is sometimes used to address an expert teacher or a scholar...

Un'alma innamorata (HWV 173) is a dramatic secular cantata for soprano and instruments written by George Frideric Handel in 1707. Other catalogues of...

diocesan architect for Llandaff, and has been described as his finest secular building. The Old Probate Registry is a Grade II* listed building while...

Macron for the 2022 French presidential election. It seeks to appeal to the secular and pro-European right, with a "social calling". Ahead of the 2022 legislative...

Schleswig, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is one of the most important secular buildings in Schleswig-Holstein, and has been rebuilt and expanded several...

Education (styled Yaffed) is an advocacy group dedicated to improving secular education in Haredi Jewish (especially Hasidic) schools. The group advocates...

of Aziz Sait and nephew of Tanveer Sait campaigned for the Janata Dal (Secular) candidate Maruthi Rao Pawar in the 2002 Karnataka assembly election against...

Ich bin in mir vergnügt (I am content in myself), BWV 204, is a secular cantata composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig between 1726 and 1727. Bach...

Irreligion in Montenegro refers in its narrowest sense to agnosticism, atheism, secular humanism, and general secularism. Increase of the number of irreligious...

'one who defines') is a title with different specific uses. There are secular definitors, who have a limited amount of oversight over a part of a diocese...

policy changes, designed to transform the new Republic of Turkey into a secular, modern nation-state, implemented under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal...

doctrine, relating to Catholic religious life or alternative religious or secular beliefs. It was established in 1542 by the leader of the Catholic Church...

in Africa, also encompassing atheism in Africa as well as agnosticism, secular humanism and general secularism, has been estimated at over tens of millions...

influence over the government.[citation needed] A related phenomenon is a secular government co-existing with a state religion or delegating some aspects...

have many classifications. Some holidays are religious and others are secular, while some can be fixed holidays on the calendar while others are movable...

politics was no longer dominated by the opposition between Christian and secular parties (the so-called Antithesis). These ideas led to the fusion of three...

Julian Calendar is equivalent to 25 December in the Gregorian calendar. Secular Saint Basil's Day: 1 January – In Greek traditions, he is the Father Christmas...

pronunciation: [villaˈnɛlla]; plural villanelle) is a form of light Neapolitan secular vocal music which originated in the Kingdom of Naples just before the middle...

was a member of the Karnataka Legislative Council. He joined Janata Dal (Secular) in April 2023. Achar was a former member of the Congress party and an...

ISBN 9781483661506. Harries, Patrick; Maxwell, David (2012-07-20). The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 9781467435857...

prepared to look a bit deeper. Ankara has a symbolic significance for the secular Turks. It is the place where a new era for the Turkish people started....

particular religious consciousness since political emancipation requires a secular state; Bauer assumes that there is not any "space" remaining for social...

commentary that focuses on textual criticism or historical criticism from a secular point of view. However, each volume will inevitably lean toward the personal...

"Free Judaism", which deals with secular humanistic Judaism. Maas was ordained by the International Institute for Secular Humanistic Judaism in 2003. Her...

of Tumkur, Karnataka, India. She is a Janata Dal (Secular) politician. Ravish is a Janata Dal (Secular) politician. In January 2015, in the Tumakuru City...

typically brick rather than stone. Over time, the style came to influence secular buildings as well as churches and spread beyond the area where Catharism...

In England King Henry II established separate secular courts during the 1160s. While the ecclesiastical courts of England, like those on the continent...

place for all people. The movement originated from an effort among ethical secular people to develop and promote humanist codes of behavior, drawing on the...

(United) (JD(U), lit. 'People's Party (United)'), is a social democratic and secular Indian political party, rooted mainly in eastern and north-eastern India...

The War Resisters League (WRL) is the oldest secular pacifist organization in the United States, having been founded in 1923. Founded in 1923 by men and...

Lancaster Country Day School (LCDS) is a private, secular, coeducational college preparatory school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. The school...

right" is the term given to ecclesiastical institutions (religious and secular institutes, societies of apostolic life) either created by the Holy See...

sacred subjects, such that non-sacred oratorios are generally qualified as 'secular oratorios': a piece of terminology that would, in some historical contexts...

ceremonies originated in the work of humanist celebrants to invent a meaningful secular alternative to religious baptisms and christenings. Civil naming ceremonies...

first online platform for Bengali speaking freethinkers, atheists, and secular bloggers and writers founded by Avijit. This group started the first celebration...

from the mid-5th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. Anglo-Saxon secular buildings in Britain were generally simple, constructed mainly using timber...

Emperor Nikephoros I Logothetes (r. 802–811). In February 808, a group of secular and ecclesiastic officials, who were dissatisfied with Nikephoros's rule...

Party of India (Marxist), the Janata Dal (Secular), the Lok Janshakti Party, the Samajwadi Party and a few secular regional parties. Following dissatisfaction...

October 1545, Dessau – 26 September 1574, Barby) was a German abbess of the secular abbeys at Gernrode and Frose as Elisabeth III of Anhalt. After she left...

The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists, atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated annually on the first...

Lande (Long live the King, the father of the country), BWV Anh. 11, is a secular cantata by J. S. Bach to a text by Picander. The work was composed in Leipzig...

against the Latins are "superfluous questions having more relation to secular matters than to spiritual." The work is mainly a collection of quotations...

one. Area (km2): 13.879 Inhabitants: 5.911.843 Parishes: 1.821 Number of secular priests: 2261 Number of regular priests: 1307 Number of permanent deacons:...

Legislative Council from Hassan district. His political party is the Janata Dal (Secular). He was born on 1 January 1988. He is the son of H. D. Revanna, MLA, and...

Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ, but is a secular university. Founded in Woodland, California, as Hesperian College, the...

in the United States and may have been the first American publisher of secular music as well. Aitken was born in Dalkeith, Scotland around 1745. In October...

Humanists Sweden work for a secular life stance founded on reason, compassion and responsibility. Its goals include a completely secular state, free of religious...

Rationalist Press Association from its formation. On his death, he had a secular funeral, at the Western Crematorium, led by J. McCormick, Vice President...

Indian Congress (Socialist) (IC(S)) also known as Congress (Secular) was a political party in India between 1978 and 1986. The party was formed through...

beginning of 1934. He worked as a teacher then as a teacher. He is active in secular and associative works and notably sets up the theater section of the "Dupaty"...

ecclesiastical principalities and free imperial cities, as well as most minor secular principalities and other self-ruling entities of the Holy Roman Empire...

Nonsectarian Relations between the Catholic Church and the state Secular humanism Secular liberalism Secularization Suppression of the Jesuits Thomas Paine...

Patriarch Spyridon (secular name Anastasios Efthimiou, Greek: Αναστάσιος Ευθυμίου) was Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (1891–1898). Hage, Wolfgang...

his strong appeal to young people, and for his efforts to reach out to secular leaders to address issues like homelessness. In 2007, Palau was estimated...

attributed to him – it is on his more than 200 secular works that his reputation rests. Most of his secular works are Italian madrigals, with the rest being...

The book is one of the most significant secular works of the Bulgarian National Revival. It was the first secular publication in modern Bulgaria. The primer...

July 2019 in Karnataka, a state in South India, after the INC-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government collapsed due to defections to the BJP. The ministry...

English Jesuit. Atkins was born in Cambridgeshire in 1601. He became a secular priest, and was sent on the English mission in 1631. Four years later he...

(main square), is widely regarded as a masterpiece of medieval European secular architecture. It was designed by Jacob van Thienen some time around 1402...

Never Sacrificed His Secular Ideology". 11 January 2022. "Obituary: Ajit Singh Braved All Odds But Never Sacrificed His Secular Ideology". 11 January...

Anthony (Russian: Антоний, romanized: Antony; secular name: Dobryna Yadreykovich; Russian: Добрыня Ядрейкович; died 8 October 1232) was the archbishop...

in July 1979 when Narain formed his own social-democratic Janata Party (Secular). Shortly after the 1980 election, Hindu nationalists regrouped in the...

Grandparents' Day or National Grandparents' Day is a secular holiday celebrated in various countries; it is celebrated to show the bond between grandparents...

armies to battle. Later he proved ready to assume, on several occasions, secular leadership in times of crisis. Bernard came from Valence in the Holy Roman...

Judith L. Hayes (1945–2012) was an American author and secular humanist columnist. She is best known for her book, The Happy Heretic, and she also operated...

16, 1790. Le Couvent was the first "convent play"; a popular genre of secular play in France during the French Revolution that was either set inside...

Allor ch'io dissi addio (HWV 80) is a dramatic secular cantata (a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment) for soprano written by Georg Frideric...

Lazor may refer to: Theodosius (Lazor) (secular name Frank Lazor; born 1933), retired primate of the Orthodox Church in America Bill Lazor (born 1972)...

Global Network comprises approximately 222 English medium, co-educational, secular schools, catering to students from PG (Play Group) to Class XII. The first...

of the texts they were setting. Secular music absorbed techniques from sacred music, and vice versa. Popular secular forms such as the chanson and madrigal...

Yadgir district from 2018 to 2023. He was a member of the Janata Dal (Secular) and represented the constituency multiple times during his political career...

religious political parties. The Constitution of Turkey states the country is secular, and the constitutional court ruled that the Islamist Virtue Party was...

1959, Madina Mosque houses two schools; a basic secondary school offering secular education and a madrasa that specializes in Qur'anic studies. Alms-giving...

the parish. The religious landscape of Kehtna parish is predominantly secular, with 82.7% of the population identifying as unaffiliated with any religion...

A prince-bishop is a bishop who is also the civil ruler of some secular principality and sovereignty, as opposed to Prince of the Church itself, a title...

relics of St. Henry during a period of consolidation of religious and secular power in Medieval Northern Europe. In the same year, he consecrated Turku...

church subsidies, as well as becoming philosophically neutral. It values secular education instead of the currently existing religious instruction in schools...

He was affiliated with the Indian National Congress, and Janata Party (Secular). "Lok Sabha Members Bioprofile-". Retrieved 15 December 2017. "Explained:...

relationship with the Israeli architect, Raanan Stern. He identifies as secular. Spiro, Amy (February 14, 2018). "'Shababnikim': Television's bad boys...

of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis, a religious and secular group open to male and female members. Franciscans adhere to the teachings...

African-American folk songs. It has been sung and recorded by many gospel and secular performers. The song is considered a Christmas carol, as its original lyrics...

speed of reaching sexual maturity. These facts illustrate the results of secular changes in body height and appearance of the first menstruation (menarche)...

happiness and collective well-being. It has been used as source material for secular and atheistic ethics. Academics and other prominent persons were signatories...

depicted the life of Buddha and the legend of Vessantara Jataka. He collected secular art not only from Thailand but from Burma, Cambodia, and Laos, frequently...

umbrella organisation of humanist associations in Europe, promoting a secular Europe, defending equal treatment of everyone regardless of religion or...

themselves with the dominionist movement and two of them are specifically secular. TheocracyWatch makes free videos available to the general public so they...

Wiederau, rejoice in thy meadows), BWV 30.1 (formerly BWV 30a), is a 1737 secular cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, on a libretto by Christian Friedrich...

Muhammed and the Quran, The Price of Partition, and Communal Rage in Secular India. Zakaria mostly wrote on Indian affairs, Islam and the British Raj...

According to its NRHP nomination, it is "the oldest extant example of secular Roman Catholic church architecture in Montana. It is also a rare example...

church plate and other fittings, though the terms are often confused. In secular usage, it is an obsolete[citation needed] term for any sink or basin for...

the Catholic Church as the clerical state, the religious state, and the secular state; and among religious states, again, we have those of the contemplative...

eliminate all customs to which the Church objected. He also agreed that the secular courts had no jurisdiction over the clergy, with the exceptions of high...

642. Nanthild's death allowed Clovis to fall under the influence of the secular magnates, who reduced the royal power in their own favour; first Aega and...

a small opposition party in Iran advocating for the establishment of a secular democracy. Although the party is technically illegal, it still operates...

joined forces with Iraq's Shi'a interior minister Jawad al-Bolani and his secular Iraqi Constitutional Party and Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai, chief of...

secularism within the national government. In April 2010, Laïque Pride, a secular group co-founded by feminist Yalda Younes, organized a march that drew...

Del bell'idolo mio (HWV 104) is a dramatic secular cantata for soprano written by Georg Frideric Handel in 1707–09. Other catalogues of Handel's music...

Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment...

centuries, antipopes were supported by factions within the Church itself and secular rulers. While modern claimants to the papacy still take place, they are...

Archbishop Simeon (secular name Radivoj Jakovlevič; 12 February 1926 – 19 March 2024) was an Eastern Orthodox bishop. Simeon studied theology in Prague...

Caste community in Jamui district. He won on the Hindustani Awam Morcha (Secular) ticket in the 2020 Bihar Legislative Assembly election. Manjhi is from...

Muzaffarnagar constituency in Uttar Pradesh. He was a member of the Janata Party (Secular), while in office in 1980. Khan died in New Delhi on 7 April 1989, at the...