though there'd certainly be no legal or cultural prohibition thereof). Secular (non-religious) weddings can happen most anywhere (other than maybe in a church or synagogue. Non-secular weddings are always somehow religious.ДЄ secular wedding ceremony - also called a 'civil' wedding ceremony - is non-religious and is, likely as not, going to take place at something like the local city or county hall, presided over by a sworn city/county wedding commissioner, or judge, or someone like that. Period.ДЄ non-secular wedding, for example, is religious and is usually (but not necessarily always) held in a church or synagogue with a priest, pastor or rabbi as the officiant.

The word 'non-secular' generally refers to religious things. The word 'secular' generally refers to non-religious things. The actual difference between 'secular' and 'non-secular' needn't have anything to do with society in order to be understood. Or the modern state The Vatican ruled by the papacy. Examples would include theocracies like the ancient state of Israel where the High Priest was also a leader of the state. For more on this, research the veil controversy in France.)ДЄ non-secular society is one where religion is experienced in many everyday events of civic life, and where it is part of the government. In the USA secularism takes the form 'separation of church and state' in France it takes the form of 'laicite' or basically 'separation of the church from the citizen, by the state' (note citizen not person, in France religion is seen to be a private matter with appropriate places and times for worship, it is not acceptable to bring religion into the public sphere. Two distinct forms of secular societies are in the USA and France both of which are also republics. A secular society is one that separates the religious from the civic.

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