Here was the secular version of the Pentecostal fire, burning before her very eyes.

In some ways, the secular versions are better than the religious ones.

The result might be considered as a secular, detached-from-nature version of the Transcendentalist experience that the landscape artist tried to make concrete.

The secular version of this tragedy, I suppose, is not to be a genius.

They had all just finished Jugendweihe, a secular version of a religious confirmation, marking the transition to early adulthood.

There's also a secular version of this impulse.

Both the religious and secular versions of this phenomenon were already dying out in the larger cities.

It is a secular version of a meditative discipline (to think "religion" in this context would also be off base).

The secular version of penance if you will.

Have they discovered a secular version of a religious celebration that they can enjoy without being pious, or even Christian?