Today's secular institutions, by contrast, have an absurdly high and unrealistic view of human nature.
The major secular institutions in the state often have a parallel, Church-owned counterpart.
The matter has renewed debate about the growing influence of religion in secular institutions in Turkey.
This is something it's truly hard to reproduce with secular institutions.
Meanwhile, secular institutions take over functions, like education, formerly controlled by the church.
His scholarship has earned him accolades from religious and secular institutions alike.
But Mr. Leonard has become a hero to people who believe that creationists are unfairly treated by secular institutions.
Granting religious institutions immunity in such suits, the court said, could put them in preferred positions over secular institutions.
The court is one of Turkey's most important secular institutions, and liberals see the ruling as largely political.
Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies.
Instead, he is calling on secular institutions to adopt religion's pedagogy, to mimic the rituals, habits and teaching techniques that churches, mosques and synagogues perfected over centuries.
