Word: secularized
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...Wonderful Life." But oddly enough, it has more in common with that movie than the Mad magazine spreads it visually resembles. Uplifting to the last, the film maintains a child's-eye-view of the wonder of Christmas. And like those television specials it is a very secular celebration of Christmas. With the blending of the holiday with Halloween, it's probably just as well that Burton steers clear of the disturbing religious overtones of the plot...
...gave a very upbeat talk about Turkey's role as a bridge between East and West," Associate Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Thomas D. Mullins said. "She stressed Turkey's role as a secular democracy in a world threatened by fundamentalism," he said...
Gates explained that he had designed theprogram this way because, in The Souls of BlackFolk, Du Bois concerned himself with both thespiritual and the secular and was the firsthistorian to canonize African American Spirituals...
This is the dark side of Islam, which shows its face in violence and terrorism intended to overthrow modernizing, more secular regimes and harm the Western nations that support them. Its influence far outweighs its numbers. The Islamic revival that has swept the Middle East is primarily a peaceful movement for a return to religious purity. But where desperation is greatest, a small number of radicals have resorted to military action to impose the Islamic ideology they espouse. For the most part, they are not members of some grand conspiracy sponsored by a state apparatus, but loosely organized, grass- roots...
...mosque and state, theology and politics. Of course, not all Muslims are what Americans call fundamentalists. The term is not used in Islam, which calls the zealots "Islamists" or "activists." Says Mary Jane Deeb, an expert on Islam at the American University in Washington: "The majority of Muslims are secular in the sense that they see that politics and their beliefs can be separate." Nor do all so-called fundamentalists condone the use of violence and terrorism to achieve their goals...