It has at times served a role like a secular religion in Victoria.

Home improvement seems to have become this decade's secular religion, much as fitness was in the 1980's.

Given basketball's status in this state as a kind of secular religion, he is even better known than his rival.

We also learn that being happy constitutes the American secular religion.

Education in the arts, he argued, should be treated with similar respect, particularly since art often had the character of a secular religion.

In our times, there are people who have secular religions.

Seminars, encounter groups and talk shows make talking a secular national religion.

By the middle of the 18th century, in fact, vegetarianism had become a secular religion.

"There are today more than 2,000 human rights organizations in the world, which means it became a secular religion," he said.

Faith in the jury system is close to a secular religion.