Sentence examples for secular subject from inspiring English sources

Why not have states pay the salaries of Catholic-school teachers of a secular subject like mathematics?

It is a quintessentially secular subject, which emerges in the seventeenth century, when contemporary realignments of power become material for artists.

Soul music, a passionate melding of gospel vocal styles and secular subject matter, was ebbing as a force while dance grooves anchored by self-contained bands or disco studio ensembles took over as the hippest sounds on the radio.

I've hosted debates and conferences in churches on secular subjects – though for me, there is no secular subject that isn't religious – ranging from the death penalty to City regulation.

The evil, in the neoromantic lyric, consists in the fitting out of the words with a theological overtone, which is belied by the condition of the lonely and secular subject who is speaking there: religion as ornament".

His pictures of secular subjects are rare.

From the 15th century, secular subjects also were used.

No longer faith bound, it had secular subjects: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, domestic scenes.

The withdrawal of religious patronage in northern Europe directed painters toward secular subjects.

If he teaches English or physics or some clearly secular subjects, he is clearly not covered".

Both religious and secular subjects were depicted in manuscript illuminations i.e., the pictorial embellishment of handwritten books.