Sentence examples for secular substitutes from inspiring English sources

Robbins has little time for the idea of "enchantment"; the word seems to flatter certain emotions or activities (such as religious epiphanies or their secular substitutes), while excluding others.

Actualizing our freedom isn't about getting our hands on so many secular substitutes -- it's about the will to say no to them!

One friend who has never consumed a chocolate chip muffin in her life is zealously stocking up on these secular substitutes in what appears to be a preemptive baking panic.

In Bangkok, it seemed, retail therapy was not a secular substitute for religious healing, but rather went together with it.

However, Mendelsohn suggests that it is inappropriate to take literature as a secular substitute for religion in our postmodern time.

Religion — after a century and a half of modern movements that conceived one secular substitute after another — is very much at issue.

People were already infatuated with police detectives ("a secular substitute for a prophet or a priest") and morbidly curious about the advances in criminal psychology and forensic procedures.

Bentham's (admittedly eccentric and somewhat humorous) ideas about "auto-iconism" can also be understood as an attempt to find a secular substitute for the rituals and practices of conventional religion.

Other artists find inspiration in the field of medicine, which, many have argued, serves as secular society's substitute for religion.

Art being secular urbanity's substitute for religion, the Met is our Hagia Sophia — the great building in Istanbul that, in its time, has flexibly glorified Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and Islam.

In cases when faith-based humanitarian organizations substitute secular nation-states in education provision, dynamics of education as a humanitarian response gets even more complicated given the narratives of conflict between Islam and the West in the contemporary world.