Sentence examples for secular systems from inspiring English sources

For me, having one gigantic monomyth in place of distinct religious or secular systems sounds like chaos.

Even in ancient secular systems, legal marriage was seen as a way to help society regulate and achieve a complex set of desires and goals: sexual activity, procreation, mutual help and affection, and parental care and accountability.

According to Gray, the so-called secular systems by which we in the west are ruled are in fact the products of spilt religion, as was the Enlightenment faith in the possibility of progress, "the belief that human life becomes better with the growth of knowledge".

Professor Jan Michiel Otto of the Leiden University Law School in the Netherlands divides legal systems of Muslim countries into three categories: classical Shariah systems, secular systems, and mixed systems.

Religious and secular systems of morality (in contrast to narrower concepts of moralism) concur that we flourish through our ethical and loving actions towards others[ 46].

He stands charged with subverting Turkey's secular system during his stint as mayor.

And so, critically, will an already battered Turkish democracy and secular system – as well as wider security and peace.

The prosecutor, Abdurrahman Yalcinkaya, has accused the party of trying to undermine Turkey's secular system of government.

Ideologically, the political regime of one of its neighbours, Iran, is fundamentally different from Turkey's secular system.

"We have no signs, no indications whatsoever, that in the next 10 years Lebanon will be headed toward a secular system or a less confessional system".

Metin Kaplan, a militant cleric accused of trying to overthrow the secular system and create an Islamic state, told an Istanbul court he was not a terrorist.