As in less secular rituals, they're not just entertained, but transformed.

Historically, the trumpet is the instrument of announcement - calling piercingly across battlefields, or ushering in some secular or religious ritual.

Mr. Fink has a knack for isolating the religious gestures in man's secular rituals.

"Religious and secular rituals can both promote cooperation," Sosis wrote in American Scientist in 2004.

Tanya Huff the surrounding countries, operated on a number of complex levels involving both priests and wizards, secular and nonsecular rituals.

She loved ceremony, and although she showed little understanding of the religious impulse, she was a sucker for secular rituals.

In the United States, the only real secular ritual that we've managed to create that has a lot of meaning for people is Thanksgiving.

As an adolescent, she and her mother went to Saturday matinees, a secular ritual on the Sabbath.

The ritual is traditionally "primarily a secular ritual" and "requires no presence of any special officiant whether public or private."

It's party music, but it's also a secular ritual.