Sentence examples for a secular religion from inspiring English sources

In an interview, Mr. Oppenheim once called the arts a "secular religion".

Ballard was not the first to see shopping as a secular religion.

As in other parts of Texas, football is a secular religion here.

By the middle of the 18th century, in fact, vegetarianism had become a secular religion.

It is, he said, the only place where the seemingly oxymoronic concept of a secular religion could have emerged.

Dr. John C. Bailar III, an emeritus professor at the University of Chicago, said: "It's a secular religion.

In the light of this, it seems evident that what we now need is not a choice between atheism and religion but a new secular religion: A religion for atheists.

But the majority of the performance involved in the project has happened over the last few months for the benefit of no one, really, except Mr. Sachs and his crew, as if the exhibition is only a kind of public observance of much more extensive rites for a new secular religion.

"Sporting events, there's no denying there's a certain secular religion aspect to it," he said.

Buy from Amazon.co.ukTOM BINGHAM holds that what has come to be known as the rule of law is "the nearest we are likely to approach to a universal secular religion".

Recently the physicist Freeman Dyson wrote in The New York Review of Books that environmentalism has become a "worldwide secular religion" in which the "path of righteousness is to live as frugally as possible".