Her child, her ruined marriage, her failure as a teacher, her loss of faith both religious and secular ... Her helplessness even.

But Finland is something else again: a country where classical music could properly be called the true secular faith.

Third, it calls for a secular or civic faith.

This development, Mr. Johnson also shows, accompanied a transformation in the art form itself: in effect, "religious attention" was being devoted to the sonic scriptures of a secular faith.

This claim suggests that the naturalist commitment to science is just a secular faith, no better epistemically than standard religion.

Frustration grew as new secular faiths failed and governments came to be seen as corrupt, inefficient, brutal, the pawns of foreigners, or all of the above.

The secular faith in the technological fix had trickled away into astrology and worse.

Prosecutors share a belief system resembling a kind of secular faith, and a central tenet of that system is that a witness who invokes is hiding something.

It is a secular faith that believes the country's true self has been bloated by taking pride in lies.

Trusting each other is the beginning of a certain secular faith, a faith that allows us to live in families and communities and nations.