Word: secularize
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While traditional liberals and conservatives encompass 32 and 16 percent of the college population, respectively, the poll adds two new categories—“religious centrists” and “secular centrists”—to describe college students’ political affiliations...
Religious centrists, an ethnically diverse group that comprises 23 percent of the students polled, support affirmative action and believe that religion should play a more important role in national politics. Secular centrists—29 percent of the students—oppose affirmative action, support gay marriage and advocate a less intrusive, less religiously oriented government...
Perhaps the biggest success of the first meeting of this new group, however, was that members realized that they were not alone in feeling, among other things, spiritually lost at a secular university like Harvard, or at least limited by the dearth of options. Davis describes a unique sense of camaraderie when members discovered they shared the same feelings. “We were all so relieved to be able to talk about these issues with like-minded individuals,” he says...
Perhaps the biggest success of the first meeting of this new group, however, was that members realized that they were not alone in feeling, among other things, spiritually lost at a secular university like Harvard, or at least limited by the dearth of options. Davis describes a unique sense of camaraderie when members discovered they shared the same feelings. “We were all so relieved to be able to talk about these issues with like-minded individuals,” he says...
...other festivals like it. It was also the attendant vice and brawls between drunken fans from rival villages or religions. Since its revival in 1951, the Cotswold Olimpicks have been a quieter, more bucolic affair, albeit imbued with what Daeschner, 34, a Colorado-born U.K. resident, describes as the "secular trinity that made Britain what it is today: Land, Booze and Patriotism." In truth, not all of the time-ingrained rituals in True Brits really count as sport: horn dancing (a kind of line dance for aristocrats toting 1,000-year-old reindeer horns), Pope burning (in effigy, of course...