Sentence examples for secular festival from inspiring English sources

It ignores the fact that Christmas actually worked rather well as both a religious and a secular festival.

Carey claimed Britain's "rich legacy" of Christian culture is "under attack" and that Christmas itself is being "re-branded" as a secular festival.

So, SGT Justin Griffith, an atheist soldier at Fort Bragg, decided to take Fort Bragg up un this offer, and began planning a secular festival, which would feature atheist and secularist speakers and musicians.

Over the past month or so, much ado about nothing has been made over the content of certain songs performed by the band Aiden, one of the bands that will be performing at Rock Beyond Belief, the secular festival taking place at Fort Bragg on March 31.

During the year, numerous religious and secular festivals provide opportunities for parades, special food, and music and dance.

But desert sunrises and shifting dunes aside, spring is also the time of one of the few secular festivals held in the kingdom, the Janadriya cultural festival.

Organized like guilds, with functions similar to those of the French medieval dramatic societies, the chambers were commissioned by the town protecting them to provide the ceremonial and entertainment at religious and secular festivals, and they were influential in popularizing art and morals.

They classify Christmas as a secular, commercial, festival for children, in the same way that Father's Day, for example, is a festival for fathers.

The great Everald Brown supplies unearthly musical instruments; there are rituals, religious and secular, and festival dances everywhere.

A thoroughly secular, unique festival is held in the little town of Buñol, near Valencia, where each August thousands of residents and visitors gather to hurl tomatoes at one another.

Secular modernist festivals are often mixed with previous religious festivals.