Word: secularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pending high-court decision could change the landscape significantly. It revolves around the 1971 Lemon ruling, which bars tax support for salaries and secular textbooks in religious day schools. The decision set up a three-part test to determine whether a government action is an unconstitutional infringement of church-state separation: an action must have a "secular legislative purpose," avoid "excessive government entanglement with religion" and have a "primary effect" that "neither advances nor inhibits religion...
...years ago and reconfirmed last month. Iranian operatives are suspected in the killings of Saudi and Jordanian intelligence agents as well as the murders of five Turkish intellectuals since 1990. "Turkey is a prime target," says Istanbul police chief Necdet Menzir, "because we are a Muslim country with a secular democratic system...
Everyone who knew him growing up agrees that Benjamin Goldstein -- Benjy, as they called him -- was a religious boy. In Bensonhurst, his middle-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, the piety of his Orthodox Jewish family set them apart from more secular Jewish neighbors. Though his father worked for the New York City Board of Education, the young Goldstein, with his side curls and yarmulke, attended school at a yeshiva. His faith seemed to draw him apart from others into an otherworldly solitude. If there was a tongue of flame in his heart, so much as a flicker of anything like bloodlust...
...long as they rely on logic for their arguments and not faith," Goodman added. "We formed the group not to oppose religious morality but to strengthen secular morality...
...passion and joy of spiritual music unfiltered. Much of the emotionalism of modern pop music -- the call-and-response involvement of the crowd, the sense that music can offer catharsis for both performer and audience -- is taken directly from the sacred-music traditions of African Americans. Listen to the secular love songs of Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston or Toni Braxton; close your eyes, ignore the lyrics, and you might as well be in a black Baptist church in Georgia. "When you listen to popular music, in America or worldwide, you can hear the African-American musical tradition," says Bernice Johnson...