Religious groups only came to realize the strategic value of female bombers after seeing secular groups' success.
America's Muslims worship freely and respect its secular constitution a success the United States should make more of in its foreign policy.
It is a measure of the success of secular mindfulness programmes that they are now seen not only as a tool for promoting mental health and wellbeing, but also for enhancing concentration and performance under pressure in sport, commerce and the armed forces.
The Ethical Culture movement has also had success building secular congregations.
Bennett's strongest attraction for the secular bourgeois is his business success.
She soon moved to Los Angeles to pursue success in the secular music realm, adopting her mother's maiden name, Perry, to avoid confusion with the actress Kate Hudson.
Mr Allawi, though himself a secular Shia, owed his election success largely to wholesale backing from the Sunni Arabs who make up about a fifth of the Iraqi population.
Mormons have a long tradition of achieving success by sharing secular versions of their tenets, said Matthew Bowman, author of "The Mormon People," citing Stephen R. Covey's "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People," which he called Latter-day Saint theology repackaged as career advice.
Historically, religious kibbutzim have enjoyed greater longevity and economic success compared to secular ones.
