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Adieu mes amours

Although "Adieu mes amours" was originally a secular chanson, it was used in a number of mass settings such as, Missa "Adieu mes amours" which uses both parody and cantus firmus compositional techniques by Francesco de Layolle, and another Missa "Adieu mes amours" by Jacob Obrecht.

Affirmative prayer

What sets affirmative prayer apart from secular affirmations of the autosuggestion type taught by the 19th century self-help author Émile Coué (whose most famous affirmation was "Every day in every way, I am getting better and better") is that affirmative prayer addresses the practitioner to God, the Divine, the Creative Mind, emphasizing the seemingly practical aspects of religious belief.

American Tune

The tune is based on a melody line from a chorale from Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, itself a reworking of an earlier secular song, "Mein G'müt ist mir verwirret," composed by Hans Leo Hassler.

Atatürk's Reforms

The leading legal reforms instituted included a secular constitution (laïcité) with the complete separation of government and religious affairs, the replacement of Islamic courts and Islamic canon law with a secular civil code based on the Swiss Civil Code, and a penal code based on that of Italy (1924–37).

Baraita of the Forty-nine Rules

The Mishnat ha-Middot has nothing in common with the Baraita cited by the old scholars under that name: for the citations leave no doubt that the Baraita, even in its mathematical parts, was founded on the Bible; whereas the Mishnat ha-Middot is a purely secular work, and, possibly, it drew upon the same source as did Mohammed b. Musa, the oldest Arabic mathematician.

Belvoir Priory

Unable to complete the building work due to his "secular employments", following the advice of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, he handed the priory to the Abbot of St Albans Abbey.

Cardinal Newman Society

Benedict Groeschel, who wrote the forward to their "Newman Guide" and has spoken publicly in support of a stronger presence of Christians opposed to abortion rights on Catholic campuses, famously quipping that some secular colleges provide a better Catholic formation than their purported Catholic counterparts.

Chocolate coins

They are traditionally given to children as both a Christian and secular tradition at Christmas time and Saint Nicholas Day and in Jewish tradition during Hanukkah (see Hanukkah gelt).

Clan Kerr

Newbattle Abbey or Newbattle Castle near Edinburgh became a secular lordship for the last commendator, Mark Kerr, 1st Earl of Lothian (Ker) in 1587.

Concert music

Classical music, the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times.

Consistory court

This jurisdiction was moved to the secular courts by the Court of Probate Act 1857 and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857.

David Heinz Gumbel

He was born in Sinsheim, Germany to a secular family among the pioneers of the local silversmith industry.

Dime Store Prophets

Dime Store Prophets often opened for secular acts such as Joan Jett, Mudhoney, and Better Than Ezra.

Director of Education

In Ontario, the Director of Education is an individual who has executive oversight and administration rights, usually within an educational entity or organization representing 72 District School Boards in Ontario of the anglophone and francophone publicly funded secular and separate school boards.

Elisabeth of Wetzikon

Gottfried Keller in the novella «Hadlaub»: gleich neben ihr eine andere Konventualin der Abtei, Frau Elisabeth von Wetzikon, Muhme des Bischofs, die später die bedeutendste Äbtissin wurde, diese auch in weltlicher Tracht. (right next to her another Member of the Assembly of the abbey, Lady Elisabeth of Wetzikon, the aunt of the bishop, who later became the most significant abbess, also in secular garb.)

Erwin Lutzer

More recently, Lutzer’s book critiquing Dan Brown’s best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, entitled The Da Vinci Deception, was featured on national broadcasts in both secular and Christian markets.

Geneivat da'at

The concept is incorporated in three provisions of Meir Tamari's proposed "Halakhic Corporate Code of Ethics" -- insider trading (even where permitted by secular law), product information and advertising, and fraudulent financial accounting reports.

H. R. Loyn

"Bede's kings. A comment on the attitude of Bede to the nature of secular kingship."

History of Bhutan

In time, however, the State Council became increasingly secular as did the successive Druk Desi, ponlop, and dzongpon, and intense rivalries developed among the ponlop of Tongsa and Paro and the dzongpon of Punakha, Thimphu, and Wangdue Phodrang.

Hochstift

In the Holy Roman Empire the German term Hochstift (plural: Hochstifte or, in some regions, Hochstifter) was often used to denote the territory of secular authority held by bishops ruling a prince-bishopric as their temporalities.

Insight on the News

Soon after Insight's story, CNN reporter John Vause visited State Elementary School Menteng 01, a secular public school which Obama had attended for one year after attending a Roman Catholic school for three, and found that each student received two hours of religious instruction per week in his or her own faith.

Judaism and political radicalism

Many young Jews rejected the Orthodoxy of their parents and turned to the great Jewish secular movements of Zionism, socialism, and Bundism a Jewish labor movement founded in Eastern Europe in the 19th century.

Judaization

In modern Hebrew, the term Judaization is used to describe the cultural life of baalei teshuvah, or "returnees", and refers to a "process through which secular, non-observant, young (and not so young) Israelis who have grown up in Israel within the majority culture, have become practicing Orthodox Jews and have joined the minority subculture of Orthodoxy".

KTNC-TV

In its earliest years, KFCB supplemented the religious programs with secular shows such as Speed Racer, Dennis The Menace, Donna Reed, Father Knows Best, Mighty Hercules, Candid Camera, New Zoo Revue, Danger Mouse and other programs as well as simulcasts of CNN Headline News, for about five hours a day.

Kulin Brahmin

From 1822, over 500 secular Kulin Brahmins of Calcutta organised themselves into a vigilante force under legal experts like Ram Mohan Roy, Dwarkanath Tagore and Prasanna Coomar Tagore known as the Brahma Sabha to report and prosecute such offences.

Land of Lakes Choirboys

Known for singing works of various musicians such as Bach and Antonio Vivaldi, the choristers sing religious and secular music.

Land reform in the Philippines

The American government—officially secular, hostile to continued Spanish control of much of the land of the now-American colony, and long hostile to Catholics—negotiated a settlement with the Church over its land.

Lil iROCC Williams

In reviews of the album, Williams was compared to secular musicians, including Lil Wayne, Lil' Romeo and Lil' Bow Wow.

Ma'alot Dafna

René Cassin High School serves the secular population of the northern Jerusalem neighborhoods.

Meir Bar-Ilan

Gaining Semicha in 1902, he travelled to Germany where he became acquainted with a more modern form of Orthodox Judaism that had a more tolerant attitude to secular education and to political Zionism (although such attitudes were also present in the Lithuania of his youth, and in his grandfather).

Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae

The revival of classical drama at the court opened the way to a "lively tradition of secular theatre that lasted through the sixteenth century and is significant for the pre-history of opera." During his reign, the architect Biagio Rossetti enlarged the city and built new streets and palazzi making Ferrara the first planned city in Europe.

Monte Cassino

In 744, a donation of Gisulf II of Benevento created the Terra Sancti Benedicti, the secular lands of the abbacy, which were subject to the abbot and nobody else save the Pope.

New Year's resolution

A New Year's resolution is a secular tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people beginning from New Year's Day.

Oommen Chandy

The siege was addressed by Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) chief H. D. Deve Gowda and CPI(M) General Secretary Prakash Karat.

Pope Urban II

Roger as a secular ruler seemed a reliable ally, since he was merely a vassal of his kinsman the Count of Apulia, himself a vassal of Rome, so it seemed safe at the time for Urban to give him these extraordinary powers, which were later to lead to bitter confrontations with Roger I's Hohenstaufen heirs.

Quodlibet

However, it was Praetorius who, in 1618, provided the first systematic definition of the quodlibet as "a mixture of diverse elements quoted from sacred and secular compositions".

Ralph Corbie

He was seized by the Parliamentarians at Hamsterley, 8 July 1644, when clothed in his Mass vestments, conveyed to London, and committed to Newgate Prison (22 July) with John Duckett, a secular priest.

Refectory table

Later in the 16th century the secular refectory table spread to Flemish and German locales.

Robert Redeker

On September 19, 2006, a few days before the Islamic month of Ramadan, he wrote an opinion piece for Le Figaro, a French secular and conservative newspaper, which quickly removed the article from its public database.

Secular Coalition for America

Advisors to the Secular Coalition for America are Woody Kaplan, chair; Rob Boston; Daniel Dennett; Richard Dawkins; Rebecca Goldstein; Sam Harris; Jeff Hawkins; Wendy Kaminer; Michael Lewis; Michael Newdow; Steven Pinker; Salman Rushdie; Ellery Schempp; Todd Stiefel; and Julia Sweeney.

Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwirjo

During the Indonesian National Revolution, his Darul Islam militia remained in amicable terms with the secular Republican forces until the latter withdrew from West Java according to the terms of Renville Agreement in 1948, while Kartosuwirjo continued the guerilla struggle against occupying Dutch forces.

Suona la tromba

"Suona la tromba" (The trumpet sounds) or "Inno popolare" (Hymn of the people) was a secular hymn composed by Giuseppe Verdi in 1848 to a text by the Italian poet and patriot Goffredo Mameli.

Tarnopol Voivodeship

Ethnic Rusyn Greek Catholics and Polish-speaking secular Jews were in some cases classified as gentile Poles in the ethnic census, and not as Ukrainians or Polish Jews; this explains the difference between the religious and ethnic census numbers.

The Steady On Tour

Since 1998 was the height of the whole Girl Power movement, the girls, who were known for parodying secular songs in their concerts, built a whole set about the women of the Bible, parodying songs by Aretha Franklin, The Chordettes, The Bangles, Cyndi Lauper and the Spice Girls.

The Yiddish King Lear

The husbands of the daughters among whom David Moishele divides his "kingdom" are, respectively a Hasid, an Orthodox Jewish businessman, and an apikoyres (a secular Jew: the word derives from Epicurean).

Tonadas

Tono humano or tonados, secular song, a main genre of 17th-century Spanish and Portuguese music

Torksey Castle

Brick at the time, although having been used previously, had rarely been in use in British secular architecture before this period.

Wayne Laugesen

As the National Catholic Register's correspondent covering the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops when the Catholic sexual abuse scandal emerged, Laugesen is often cited for research that has put the problem in context by comparing abuse statistics of Catholic institutions with those of other religious and secular organizations.

Yeshiva Beth Yehudah

providing quality Torah-based and secular educational programs for almost 100 years.


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