With the toppling of Mr. Hussein's secular dictatorship, competition for the heart of Shiite Islam in the region has broken open.
The preachers are going strong, but they now have competition from secular NGOs whose "missionaries" preach human rights and the need to take care of the environment.
By focusing on consumer choice, the pluralistic Dutch institutional environment may have facilitated (or even catalysed) increased performance measurement [ 14], however it is difficult to isolate the impact of managed competition from secular trends.
In fierce competition with other secular parties, Meretz is bidding for antireligious voters.
In many cases, the religious nationalists have ascended to command positions from precisely the kind of premilitary college course that Mr. Zamir runs — but theirs are run by the religious movements rather than his secular one, meaning that the competition between him and them is both ideological and careerist.
Campbell misrepresents the brain-body relationship as a polarization of the tribal dream state (arguably the source for collective myth making) and the "hard and unremitting competition" of the secular, scientific state.
They live in a world of "secular stagnation", "jobless growth", zero-sum competition and stability-threatening inequality.The optimists' headquarters is, of course, Silicon Valley.
The radish artists take over the city square all day, producing extraordinarily intricate religious and secular scenes in time for the competition that evening.
He has publicly affirmed the importance of complying with Turkey's secular laws, and mathematics and science competitions at Gulen schools overshadow religious expression, which takes place quietly in "relaxation rooms" that double as prayer spaces.
In a secular cluster nobody shares because they have competition among them and also so much jealousy so we fight etc. (FGD-A2b) Another participant shared how the faith element had helped resolve conflict and bring them back into communion: If I had some grudges against that person, these things are cancelled if I sincerely commit myself to prayer.
