chambers dictionary of beliefs and religions

Not religious or not connected with religion H Secularism The belief that the state, morals, education etc should be independent of religion: G J Holyoake’s (1817 – 1916) system of social ethics (separation of state and religion) Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners 2002 G Secular Relating to the present world, or to things not spiritual civil, not ecclesiastical lay, not concerned with religion F Secularism The Chambers Dictionary 1998 edition, reprinted 1999 E Secular An advocate of exclusively secular education D Secularlyġ As a secular or lay person in accordance with secular procedure non-ecclesiasticallyĢ In a worldly manner in a manner characterized by the absence of religion. In wider sense, as denoting a mode of thought more or less implicitly held and acted uponĢ The view that education, or the education provided at the public cost, should be purely secular C Secularistġ One of the secular clergy a secular personģ. As the name of a definitely professed system of belief, promulgated by G. Secular societies: the designation given to associations formed in various English towns from 1852 onwards to promote the spread of secularist opinions B Secularismġ The doctrine that morality should be based solely on regard to the well-being of mankind in the present life, to the exclusion of all considerations drawn from belief in God or in a future state. (In modern use often implying the exclusion of religious teaching from education, or from the education provided at the public expense.) Of a school: That gives secular educationģa Of or belonging to the present or visible world as distinguished from the eternal or spiritual world temporal, worldly.ģb Caring for the present world only unspiritual rareĤ Used for: Pertaining to or accepting the doctrine of secularism secularistic Also of buildings, etc., Not dedicated to religious usesĢc Of education, instruction Relating to non-religious subjects. music), hence of writers or artists: Not concerned with or devoted to the service of religion not sacred profane.

Chiefly used as a negative term, with the meaning non-ecclesiastical, non-religious, or non-sacred, but not anti-religious.Ģb Of literature, history, art (esp. Oxford English Dictionary (2 nd edition, 1989) A SecularĢa Belonging to the world and its affairs as distinguished from the church and religion civil, lay, temporal. Relevant dictionary entries for secular etc. In modern times, it is certainly not as it conforms with the Euro Convention on Human Rights which allows freedom to have beliefs, or none at all. Many people still see/use the word secular as being anti-religious.

Chambers dictionary of beliefs and religions