Sentence examples for secular areas from inspiring English sources

But, with no inspectors to hand out fines, some businesses in largely secular areas may be encouraged to open.

Some attempts have been made to resacralize contemporary cosmology, history, and personal experience by (1) extending the scope of religious concerns to "secular" areas such as politics, economics, personality development, and art; and (2) modifying theological positions, ethical norms, and liturgical forms to incorporate new modes of expression and to experiment with new styles of living.

The mosque is proposed to have a bazaar as well as other secular areas intended for interfaith interactions.

The developers have required that the secular areas of the mosque (e.g. the restaurant, event halls and stores) be open to people of all religions.

Secular area courts were replaced with Islamic Shariah courts.

The cafe is in the so-called German Colony, a neighborhood known as the city's most dovish, secular area.

Various kinds of torii can be seen in Japan, but their function is always the same: to divide the sacred precincts from the secular area.

The courts have come to be dominated by Islamists in part because secular groups in areas no longer under government control lack the firepower and finances to enforce their writ.

Children at religious schools made no more progress than those at secular ones, and areas where there were many religious schools did no better than those where there were few.

"We began by asking ourselves the question: What is facilitating the entry of Al Qaeda into an area populated by moderate secular Arabs?" Colonel Burton said.

The lied, or song, continued its 15th-century role as the chief secular form in Germanic areas, but it did not develop to the same extent as the madrigal and the chanson.