The Extraordinary Imperial Ambassadors to the Conclave during the 1667–1730 Period by Jiří M. Havlík

“…During the years 1691–1730 the practice of appointing extraordinary secular ambassadors to the conclave had already stabilised – mostly they were imperial counts who intervened with total respect in the events that took place around the papal election. …”
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Honest to God and the South African churches in 2016 by M. Prozesky

“…The paper argues that, five hundred years on, Robinson’s project of developing a Christian response to contemporary secular challenges remains valid in South Africa. …”
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Éducation à la laïcité et enseignement laïque du fait religieux : enjeux d’une pédagogie du discernement by Anne Vézier

“…The reference to the principle of secularism, secular education, the religious fact respectful of beliefs or non-beliefs. …”
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Cultural Identities in Sustaining Religious Communities in the Arctic Region: An Ethnographic Analysis on Religiosity from the Northern Viewpoint by Nafisa Yeasmin

“…If northern societies accept multiculturalism and immigrants, they should not disregard the cultures and religious practices (for example, ritual slaughter) of immigrants, as they need to survive and integrate as a minority community in a secular society. However, there is clash between secularism and religions permitting animal slaughter, which is prohibited by some and allowed by other European countries. …”
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<i>Tona</i>, the Folk Healing Practices in Rural Punjab, Pakistan by Azher Hameed Qamar

“…Tona, a layman’s approach to healing that describes magico-religious (fusion of magic and religion) and secular magic practices in rural Punjab, Pakistan, is an example of magico-religious and secular magical practice. …”
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Radical orthodoxy: its ecumenical vision by G. Ward

“…This article sketches the nature of that ecumenical vision that begins with the way in which secularism has enabled Christians to look beyond their own denominational borders and even share resources. …”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…On the contrary, he wants to transform the world by his commitment. The new secular holiness is not about contemplation but about action and creatio ex nihilo. …”
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ISLAM AND NEO-MODERNISM IN INDONESIA: REVISITING NURCHOLISH MADJID AND ABDURRAHMAN WAHID’S THOUGHT ON CIVIL SOCIETY by Dito Alif Pratama

“…Adapting the concept of Barton (1997), both Madjid and Wahid are not only prominent public intellectuals but also can be considered intellectual ulama, scholars who combine the best of classical scholarship and intellectual leadership with modern secular and Islamic learning and participated alongside other public intellectuals in Indonesia's civil society forums. …”
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Thinking God in a Global Multi-religious Context: Trends, Challenges and Possibilities by Rian Venter

“…This article situates God-talk intentionally in the present global and post-secular horizon and asks about the implications of this hermeneutical move. …”
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Clinical ethics radically reconsidered: bioethics, common morality, and the law by H. Tristam Engelhardt Jr

“…Nesta edição, dando continuidade à publicação da obra “After God: Morality and Bioethics in a Secular Age”, do importante bioeticista Prof. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr, que gentilmente nos cedeu os direitos, será apresentado o capítulo seis. …”
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Singing and Sounding the Sacred – the Function of Religious Songs and Hymns in the Public Sphere by Elsabé C. Kloppers

“…Religious singing in public spaces forms bridges between personal faith, the church, and public Christianity, while at the same time also forming bridges to a pluralist, secular, and post-secular society. I depart from the premise that the singing of hymns in the public sphere constitutes a form of religion lived in public. …”
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Cult of war by Elena Markus, Nina Frolova

“… The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces in Kubinka near Moscow is a quintessential example of the post-Soviet populist ideology, representating a mixture of ostensibly religious values with multiple secular cult objects. …”
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Where does the moral groundwork come from in today’s society? by ks. Piotr Mazurkiewicz

“…The article shows sociological and moral dilemmas of modern liberal democracies resulting from the fact that liberalism has become radically secular. The author raises the issue of the origin of this state of affairs, as well as of paradoxes that arise while these societies search for justification of moral positions.…”
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Adolescencja współczesnej kultury zachodniej –kryzys tożsamościowy i sekularyzacja by Marcin Kłosowski

“…In this perspective, secularization may be seen as a manifestation of such crisis and the militant atheism as a manifestation of negative identity. …”
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Le pouvoir laïque est-il profane ? Classement distinctif et spiritualisation seigneuriale en Haute-Allemagne à la fin du Moyen Âge by Joseph Morsel, Camille Noûs

“…We can then deduce the generic correlation established in this society between social – secular as well as ecclesiastical – domination and the attribution of a more spiritual character to the dominant than to the dominated, who are relegated to the carnal.…”
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St. John Paul II’s Natural Law Legacy and International Human Rights Culture of Human Dignity – A Road to Universal Brotherhood and Peace by Ján Figel

“…The author advocates a return to the core principles of key documents on this subject to counter the influence of various  ideologies and  totalitarian regimes. Highlighting secular and faith-based sources including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Vatican II Council Declaration, the text emphasizes human dignity as the meeting point for religious and secular humanists. …”
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Religion and Social Economic Development of Communities in Nyarushanje Sub-County Rukungiri District. by Ayebare, Agnes

“…The primary reason for this has been the conceptualization of development as a secular project underpinned by the view of modernization and development across the world. …”
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The Quest for a Stable Disk by J. A. Sellwood, R. G. Carlberg

“…Here, we revisit this issue and show that simply eliminating the most nearly circular orbits from Toomre's disk model can inhibit troublesome secular growth. We also present both 2D and 3D simulations of particle disks that remain featureless for over 50 orbit periods. …”
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Wychowanie do zrównoważonego rozwoju w kontekście katolickiej nauki społecznej by Irena Grochowska

“…One of the basic calls of the modern church is to call secular people to engage in the process of evangelization and building the new humanism. …”
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The Transition from Song to Poetry in Latvian Literature in the Second Half of the 19th Century by Māra Grudule

“…In the second half of the 18th century, as a result of transferring from a German to a Latvian cultural space, a new genre of song was created by the German pastor Gotthard Friedrich Stender, the secular, didactic and sentimental ziņģe (a term coined from the German verb singen, ‘to sing’). …”
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