Sentence examples for secular topics from inspiring English sources

More secular topics were introduced, though, as Saudis educated abroad came back to run the schools.

As the God in his sermons became more abstract, he retained the habit of preaching about the sacred importance of seemingly secular topics like generosity.

And they will at least hear him out patiently when he speaks out on secular topics on which he has some expertise.

Before dinner, Anna, Natalie, Jamie, and I got a chance to talk with the Abbess, and I was struck by how diverse our questions were and how nimbly she hopped between religious and secular topics.

* CHEB MAMI, TRANSGLOBAL UNDERGROUND, Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park Band Shell, Ninth Street and Prospect Park West, Park Slope, (718) 855-7882, E 45. Cheb Mami, from Algeria, was a leader in rai, the rebellious pop that dared to take up secular topics and Western dance rhythms.

The fears have been stoked by speeches by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as well as by confessions of political prisoners, that suggest that the study of secular topics and ideas has made universities incubators for the political unrest unleashed after the disputed presidential election in June.

The post-Chalukya period is characterised by the popularity of Shaiva and Vaishnava devotional writings, though secular and courtly topics written in native metres continued to flourish.

Kannada features a rich and ancient body of literature including religious and secular genre, covering topics as diverse as Jainism (such as Puranas), Veerashaivism (such as Vachanas), Vaishnavism (such as Haridasa Sahitya) and modern literature.

His speech at USC was titled, "Secular Ethics, Human Values and Society," a topic that was sufficiently broad to allow him to range over matters as diverse as the consciousness of animals, the strengths of India's multicultural society and the nature of happiness.

Susan J. Gordon takes on the topic of secular businesses who attempt to honor Jewish traditions that they don't really understand, in a piece about coaching a well-meaning local bank manager on the fine points of lighting a menorah, which, she has to explain, is a sacred act central to the celebration of Hanukah, and NOT just the Jewish equivalent of putting up a Christmas tree.

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