As Europe became Christianized, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day.

It occurs on December 24 in the Western Christian Church and the secular world at large, and is one of the most culturally significant celebrations of the Western world and Christendom.

Like other tribes in the northeast, the Garos ferment rice beer, which they consume in religious rites and secular celebrations.

Smaller kebero drums may be used in secular celebrations.

Scientologists also celebrate secular holidays such as New Year's Eve, and other local celebrations.

The Arbeter Ring provides old age homes for its aging members, as well as schools, camps, retreats, affordable health insurance, and year-round programs of concerts, lectures, and secular holiday celebrations.

In 1988, the Treasury gallery within The Cloisters, containing objects used for liturgical celebrations, personal devotions, and secular uses, was renovated.

In 1983, following celebrations of the nine hundredth anniversary of Gilbert's birth, a number of lay people in the East Midlands of England undertook to sustain the memory and work of Gilbert and the Gilbertine Order by establishing a new secular Order.

Being both a civil parish and religious community, the population celebrates a mixture of secular and religious celebrations annually.

The cinemas shows religious rather than secular films on 11th and 12th Rabi-ul-Awwal. Hundreds of thousands of people gather at Minar-e-Pakistan Lahore between the intervening night of 11th and 12th Rabi ' al-awwal for Mawlid celebrations, this is the worlds biggest gathering for Mawlid celebrations.

In recent years the celebrations have become more secular, with the public house at the bottom of Holcombe Hill attracting as many as 3, 000 visitors if the weather is good.

This was perhaps under the influence of a different Methodist tradition, the holding of Watchnight services on New Year's Eve, in competition with the rowdy secular celebrations of the New Year.

In East Africa, ululation ( or ililta ) performed by worshippers is a feature of services in the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox Churches, and is also commonly used in secular celebrations such as parties or concerts.

Smaller kebero drums may be used in secular celebrations.

Whereas the Church was focusing on the religious, ecclesiastical aspects of the baptism, with slogans ( in Latin ) like " Sacrum Poloniae Millenium " ( Poland's Sacred Millennium ) the Party was framing the celebrations as a secular, political anniversary of the creation of the Polish state, with slogans ( in Polish ) like " Tysiąclecie Państwa Polskiego " ( A Thousand Years of the Polish State ).

Within this context eminently festive, many secular celebrations are considered a preface to Blacks and Whites ' Carnival, and in the city of Pasto is mainly performed on 28 December ( All Fools ' Day ) and 31 ( New Year's Eve ).

Dominic saw the need for a new type of organization to address the needs of his time, one that would bring the dedication and systematic education of the older monastic orders to bear on the religious problems of the burgeoning population of cities, but with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders or the secular clergy

Dominic sought to establish a new kind of order, one that would bring the dedication and systematic education of the older monastic orders like the Benedictines to bear on the religious problems of the burgeoning population of cities, but with more organizational flexibility than either monastic orders or the secular clergy.

A secular bear market consists of smaller bull markets and larger bear markets ; a secular bull market consists of larger bull markets and smaller bear markets.

In a secular bear market, the prevailing trend is " bearish " or downward-moving.

An example of a secular bear market was seen in gold during the period between January 1980 to June 1999, culminating with the Brown Bottom.

And know that even though the legal authority vested by the government to decide cases is with the secular courts and the judges there are Jews, with all this it is clear that according to the law of our holy Torah – he who sues his friend in their courts commits a sin too great to bear, and he is as was decided by the Rambam and Shulchan Aruch, that any who sues in their courts is evil and it is as though he has been spiteful and blasphemed and raised his hand against the Torah of Moses our Rabbi.

), Volf has, through his work, forged a theology that has earned him the designation “ a theologian of the bridge .” The main thrust of his theology is to bring the reality and the shape of God ’ s Trinitarian life and love to bear on multiple divisions in today ’ s world — between denominations, faiths, and ethnic groups as well as between the realms of the sacred and the secular ( in particular business, politics, and globalization processes ).

The following are the secular bull and bear markets experienced by the Dow since its inception:

In 1229, the abbot was sent in the king ’ s name to bear messages to Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and in 1280 the abbot was empowered to arrest all vagabond Cistercian monks or lay-brothers, by the help of the secular arm, and to inflict appropriate punishment.

As of 2010, it has a community of about 12, 000 including 4, 425 communicants, and is evidencing a greater effort to bring the Gospel to bear upon an increasingly secular society.

Christian artists generally use secular styles, pairing them with lyrics that display faith and spirituality to varying degrees.

Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as ( in terms of the varying music styles ) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

Hence the term encompasses religious buildings as well as secular ones, historic as well as modern expressions and the production of all places that have come under the varying levels of Islamic influence.

Under him were a varying number of bishops, as well as a native Archdeacon, who had authority over the clergy and who wielded a great amount of secular power.

It trails Mars ( at the ) at a distance varying by only 0. 3 AU during each revolution ( with a secular trend superimposed, changing the distance from 1. 5 – 1. 8 AU around 1850 to 1. 3 – 1. 6 AU around 2400 ).

Southern Gospel music — at one time also known as " quartet music "— is music whose lyrics are written to express either personal or a communal faith regarding biblical teachings and Christian life, as well as ( in terms of the varying music styles ) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

These four symbols have varying heraldic, religious, and secular meanings including loyalty, piety, bravery, martyrdom, humility, and sacrifice.

Christian country music ( sometimes marketed as Country Gospel or Inspirational Country ) is music that is written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as ( in terms of the varying music styles ) to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music.

The same outlook is applied with regard to obtaining degrees necessary to enter one's intended profession: where tolerated in the Haredi society, attending secular institutions of higher education is viewed as a necessary but inferior activity.

Since most Modern Orthodox women attend college, and many receive advanced degrees in a variety of fields, Modern Orthodoxy generally believes that their Jewish education should equal their secular education.

The right of handing out degrees, of holding chancellorships and of appointing the secular professors was also granted to the Jesuits.

St Benet's Hall, founded in 1897, is a Benedictine foundation, whose principal historic function was to allow Catholic monks ( primarily Benedictines from Ampleforth Abbey, and members of related orders ) to study for secular degrees as undergraduates within the University.

A prominent feature in the non-dipolar part of the secular variation is a westward drift at a rate of about 0. 2 degrees per year.

Because Hasidic men receive little secular education, and women tend to be homemakers, college degrees are rare, and economic opportunities lag far behind those of the rest of the population.

Upon graduating in the late 1960s with Master of Divinity and Ph. D. degrees in history from Yale University, he expected to teach early modern European history on secular university campuses, and continue his apologetic work for IVCF.

Furthermore, Rubio said that the university will continue to issue its own secular degrees and diplomas which the school considers lawful and valid in Peru.

This institution is expanding its majors to include secular degrees to reach the world with the unchanging Word.

The tradition began during the time of the Western Schism, when the legitimately elected Pope gave secular leaders permission to verify the authenticity of papal degrees before enforcing them.

GCU offers several undergraduate and graduate Christian studies degrees meant to equip learners to lead as Christians in their areas of influence, be they secular, religious, professional or personal.

Serthar Institute has been home to over 500 khenpos — holders of Bachelor's degrees in divinity — and widely renowned for the high quality of both its religious and secular education.