Word: secularizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Though his protagonists live in clean, secular Toronto, they carry around the primal ties and cycles of guilt that belong to the other side of the globe and leave them in half shadow...
...many of us brought up in the secular tradition of the United States, any public figure who links policy with faith is at best a fundamentalist, at worst a zealot. But politicians are well aware of the fact that privately Americans believe in God and have more "faith" than their counterparts throughout most of the West. Such conflict between public and private puts politicians between a rock and a hard place...
...true, however, that Japan had been culturally static until then. Japan's ancient imperial capital Kyoto represented the classic division of old Japanese power: court, samurai, priests. It continued to exert a great influence on the country's art. But in Edo, a more secular and even demotic imagination began to assert itself--marked, writes Singer, by "bold, sometimes brash expression...and a playful outlook on life in general." This happened because Japanese society, in the new capital, became somewhat more open to change. Not very much, but a little, and then a little more. The once despised merchants...
Officials from the Interfaith Forum and the Secular Society said King's personal faith is not relevant to the elections...
...matter how vigorously anyone argues that the Christmas tree has become a secular artifact, it is still a Christmas tree, and carries all the associated symbolism when it is placed in House foyers. Sofen remarks, "I find it funny that in a school so committed to diversity, this doesn't occur to anyone--at least no one in the administration...