Little et al. explained the secular changes in craniofacial dimensions (narrower face, shorter face and smaller mandible in spite of an increase in overall body dimensions) among indigenous children in an isolated community in Mexico over an interval of 32 years (1968 2000) by a decrease in food (maize) coarseness or grit content.
The confrontation between the AKP and the secular opposition took on a new dimension in 2007 when Turkish authorities claimed to have uncovered a cache of weapons belonging to an ultranationalist network plotting to overthrow the government.
Together, the two men brought an "Islamic crusade" dimension to the largely secular revolt, according to Sa'id al-'As, a rebel leader and secularist.
Admirers have long detected a spiritual dimension in Mr. Calatrava's secular work, particularly in Spain.
Robust empirics support that individual value orientation are represented by two primary dimensions— rational-secular and self-expression value orientations (Inglehart 1997; Inglehart and Baker 2000; Welzel et al. 2003; Norris and Inglehart 2004; Inglehart and Welzel 2005).
"We turn to demonic possession films because they provide reassurance that there is some spiritual dimension out there, that there is something beyond the secular," says Hutchings.
In his 2010 book "A Secular Age," the Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, described secularity in terms of a worldview that concentrates on the present and which permeates society without any dimension of the transcendent.
«There was a very modest cultural, educational dimension in what I was doing, which was to underline the strong secular and liberal currents that sprang in the Arab world,» he said.
Associations between grandmaternal malnutrition and newborn size, and secular increases in birthweight, suggest that fetal development is "tailored" to current maternal pelvic dimensions to avoid such obstetric complications (Pembrey, 1996).
Thus the sectarian dimension cannot and must not be isolated from the far more obvious and salient secular geopolitical one.
