Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Al Azhar, the bastion of Sunni Islam scholarship that prides itself on a moderate form of Egyptian Islam, issued a document that seeks to marry secular attitudes with conservative theories.
So are many of the other forces that have gained ground among the rebels, thanks in part to Gulf backing.Rebel groups that echo more moderate and secular attitudes, for which Syria used to be praised, are smaller and less powerful.
This extraordinary behavior may also indicate a strong secular attitude within the LPK families.
In secular Tel Aviv, attitudes are much more relaxed, and some restaurants, nightclubs and movie theaters open in defiance of the law.
The truly prescient political or marketing team, he argues, would be paying more attention to granular micro-precincts (i.e. "sports fans, pet owners, international travelers, early risers"); shopping destinations (Wal-Mart vs. Target); and secular spiritual attitudes than to the categories that mattered in the past.
But the church is struggling in that effort, as this traditionally Catholic society is turning more secular and as attitudes are hardening toward perceived cover-ups over the years.
This was true for men with and without a partner in both cohorts and corroborates a positive secular trend in attitudes about sex found among older men surveyed 30 years apart in a 2001 study of 70 year olds in Gothenburg, Sweden.
It would like to play a larger role in the Muslim world except that its secular Constitution and relaxed attitudes are out of step with Middle Eastern Islam.
In dollar terms, the deals aren't huge, but they reveal a concern among car companies that the old paradigm, in which every household owned at least one car, might be disappearing, thanks to urbanization and other demographic changes, technological advances, and, perhaps, a secular shift in consumer attitudes toward the car.
A century or so on, Orthodox Jews often have a similar attitude to secular Jews.
He wrote that by taking "a somewhat critical attitude" toward secular culture, he was following a principle of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits, "of acting against whatever can lead one away from total faithfulness to Christ and the hierarchical church".
