secular
Adjective:
- Not connected with religious or spiritual matters: "secular" describes things that are separate from religion, focusing on worldly affairs.
- Relating to the physical world and not to any eternal or spiritual life: It refers to concerns of this life and this world, as opposed to religious or eternal concerns.
- (Of clergy) Not bound by monastic vows: In some religious contexts, it describes clergy who live and work in the general community, not in a monastery.
Noun:
- A person who is not a member of the clergy or a monastic order: A layperson.
Adjective:
- The government should remain secular and treat all religions equally.
- She enjoys secular music more than hymns.
- He is a secular priest who serves in a local parish.
Noun:
- The meeting was attended by both clergy and seculars.
"Secular humanism": A philosophy or life stance that embraces human reason, ethics, and justice while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition.
- His beliefs are grounded in secular humanism.
"Secular trend": A long-term trend or movement that persists over a very long period, often used in economics or sociology.
- Economists are studying the secular trend of declining manufacturing jobs.
"Secular state": A country or state that is officially neutral in matters of religion, neither supporting nor opposing any particular religion.
- India is constitutionally a secular state.
Secularism (n): The principle of separation of the state from religious institutions; the belief that religion should not play a role in government, education, or other public parts of society.
- The country's constitution enshrines the principle of secularism.
Secularize (v): To remove something from religious control or connection; to make secular.
- The government moved to secularize the school system.
Secularization (n): The process of making something secular.
- The secularization of society is a complex historical process.
- Adjective: Temporal, worldly, non-religious, lay, profane (in the sense of not sacred), laic.
- Noun: Layperson, laity.
- Adjective: Religious, sacred, spiritual, ecclesiastical, clerical, monastic.
- Noun: Clergyman, cleric, ecclesiastic, monk.
Secular society: A society where religious institutions and beliefs are separate from the operation of the state and public life.
- They advocate for a modern, secular society.
Secular education: Education that is neutral regarding religion, not promoting any particular religious belief.
- The public school provides a secular education.
- characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy
- set his collar in laic rather than clerical position
- the lay ministry
- of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows
- the secular clergy
- not concerned with or devoted to religion
- sacred and profane music
- secular drama
- secular architecture, children being brought up in an entirely profane environment
- characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world
- worldly goods and advancement
- temporal possessions of the church
- of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
- someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person