(The book emphasizes God's contribution and traditional gender roles, and says less about intercourse than many of its secular equivalents).

He had been thinking that he, Dawkins and Harris might set up a secular equivalent of hospital visitors.

The secular equivalent of Munich's many Baroque churches, it makes a silent operatic statement all by itself.

Failure, it occurred to him, was the secular equivalent of sin.

In isolated rural areas a juke joint is often an important social center for the black community, the secular equivalent of the church.

More important, pollution is rarely viewed as simply a sin that can be erased by the payment of the secular equivalent of an indulgence.

In this sense the university was the secular equivalent of the Theological Schools.

Disgorging your inner life in rhapsodic spoken dream-songs that set audiences cheering may be the secular equivalent of the gospel experience.

You could consider it a secular equivalent to prayer, he said - fine when performed alone but enhanced in the collective.

A modern secular equivalent would be the entitlement to maintenance in the event of divorce.