Word.ws English Dictionary

secular religions

secular religions is the plural of secular religion.

Meaning of secular religion

Noun

secular religion (plural secular religions)

  1. A communal belief system that omits or disregards supernatural or metaphysical elements (unlike religions) but shares most of the epistemic traits of religions, such as dogma, ideology, martyrdom for a cause, tribalism, demonization of outsiders, dichotomization of humans into the righteous versus the evildoers (good guys versus bad guys), and so on.
    • Fascism and communism are often described as secular religions.

Questions about secular religions

What is secular religions the plural of?
Secular religions is the plural of secular religion.

Words near secular religions in the dictionary

  1. secular equilibria
  2. secular equilibrium
  3. secular equilibriums
  4. secular progressivism
  5. secular religion
  6. secular religions
  7. Secular Zionism
  8. secularisation
  9. secularisations
  10. secularise
  11. secularised

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: secular religions (page history and authors); secular religion (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “secular religions.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/secular_religions. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.