"The B.J.P. has made it clear that it is committed to secular ideals."

It seems grossly unjust to force Muslim women to live under a medieval code of religious law inside a society based on secular ideals.

The French head scarf controversy represents a conflict between religious practice and the French secular ideal.

The Western secular ideal of progress is like the Hindu commitment to Krishna.

And religions have been just as murderous as any secular ideal.

In Pakistan, a nation created for religious reasons, the forces of fundamentalist Islam have always been stronger than secular ideals.

The public was receptive, in part, because they approved of the secular ideals of the French Revolution.

The new ideals of humanism, although more secular in some aspects, developed against a Christian backdrop, especially in the Northern Renaissance.

You ought to adopt the opposite stance, welcoming the secular ideal more warmly and valuing it more highly.

The publication in France set off a public debate on the country's devotion to its secular ideals.