Sentence examples for secular spheres from inspiring English sources

The almost startling serenity of the Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines found at the heart of these colorful throngs, and their pleasant clamor of haggling, reinforces the view of the easy rapport between the sacred and secular spheres of Japan.

Because the religious and secular spheres largely overlap in the life of many such schools, the court has tried to identify some facts likely to reveal the relative religious or secular intent or effect of the government benefits in particular circumstances.

Drawn from the Montpellier Codex, a rich compilation of French motets made around 1300, the program at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights — lovingly and radiantly sung — showed again and again how music in that period was constantly repurposed, blurring boundaries between high and low culture, and religious and secular spheres.

In the penultimate paragraph of the "Treatise," Spinoza insists that "the state can pursue no safer course than to regard piety and religion as consisting solely in the exercise of charity and just dealing, and that the right of the sovereign, both in religious and secular spheres, should be restricted to men's actions, with everyone being allowed to think what he will and to say what he thinks".

Even in the secular sphere, piety and asceticism forbade the building of splendid palaces and monuments.

This means that laypersons are the judges of how to realize their Christian destiny in the secular sphere.

Those experts have not yet been appointed, but are expected to be a mixture of men and women from both the church and secular sphere.

Western theology, meanwhile, understood man as autonomous in the secular sphere, although controlled by the authority of the church, which was conceived as vicariously representing God.

These modifications do not, however, refute the generalization that Calvinism was largely opposed to art and music in the service of religion but not in the secular sphere.

In the secular sphere, it is celebrated in democratic countries by the granting of the right to vote to persons upon the attainment of a certain age.

Then as now, the deposition of Henry IV was the most hotly debated action taken by Gregory VII, who pursued to its logical conclusion his conviction that papal primacy pertained not only to the spiritual sphere but to the secular sphere as well.