Sentence examples for a secular framework from inspiring English sources

Mohamed Morsi has been an experiment to see if Islamism can exist within a secular framework.

Is Turkey's system, in which a Muslim-oriented party governs within a secular framework, a template for Egypt and the other liberated Arab states as they put together their constitutions?

He means, of course, Orpheus, the god of song, or, to put it in a more secular framework, the principle of singing itself, that joyous force which operates through us, the perennial enchantment of speech raised to the power of lyric.

"When it comes to concerted protest actions by students, which follow other more visible incidents linked for instance to wearing the veil, the secular framework for education must be firmly reminded and guaranteed," it said.

The question arises, therefore, as to how in political life ethical judgments are to be formed, and how are they to be argued in the public square, and in the case of what is called "Christian ethics," how are these to be reconciled within the legitimately secular framework of contemporary democratic politics.

This vision anchors a universal authority in the moral, ritualistic, and aesthetic framework of a secular high culture, while providing social and moral criteria for assessing fair, humanitarian governance and proper social relations.

My first purpose here is to articulate an ethical approach for Christians and the Christian church to engage governments on major matters of politics and public policy, within the robust framework of a secular state.

A secular state is always secularizing.

But that does not fit the broader framework of Shining India, of a secular and democratic India, as opposed to a battle-ridden, military-run Pakistan.

This is the framework, theatrical, political, social, in which I see the nomination of Barack Obama -- as a secular epiphany that every Jew should look at with a rush of satisfaction.

A secular humanist?