Meditation may be for a religious purpose, but even before being brought to the West it was used in secular contexts.

It is not used outside of this secular context.

Ai et al. (2009) examined a "sense of reverence in religious and secular contexts" by interviewing 177 patients.

The image appears in religious and secular contexts.

Hula was outlawed at one time as a religious practice but today is performed in both spiritual and secular contexts.

However, 20th century scholars began to use the term in a secular context.

Such ideas might be translated into a more secular context nearer home.

At the same time, the terminology was used in secular contexts, for example to describe the motion of railroad trains.

Though often religious in nature, martyrdom can be applied to a secular context as well.

This is not the same as science as conducted by any Muslim in a secular context.