Not involving or relating to a specific religious sect or political group.
‘nonsectarian prayer at school events’
‘nonsectarian politics’
‘It is a spirituality that is non-sectarian, universal and unconnected to ritual.’
‘Built in 1864, it was the first coed, non-sectarian university in the world.’
‘The community's private school was non-sectarian and learning about different religions was part of the curriculum.’
‘Here, he is not referring to a non-sectarian space, a place where the differences between Catholics and Protestants do not matter.’
‘We will strive to be non-sectarian and ecumenical, and our pages are open to a wide range of political views, a commitment to pluralism reflected in our advisory editorial board.’
‘The first steps have been taken to set up an anti-capitalist movement from below, where social and political organisations can come together in a non-sectarian way.’
‘However, many Western practitioners today feel a need to reinstate the universal, non-sectarian spiritual orientation of Traditional Chinese Medicine.’
‘Our objective is India Economy Watch is to try with time to produce a non-sectarian forum where a wide variety of views associated with the hopes and difficulties for India's future can be debated.’
‘The dominant architectural feature of the Main Quadrangle, Memorial Church was dedicated in 1903 in memory of Leland Stanford and has been non-sectarian since its inception.’
‘He cites numerous friends and colleagues who have described him as ‘the most non-sectarian person they know’ before launching another attack on last year's coverage of his demise.’
‘As members of a non-sectarian party, Ford and his colleagues argued that it would be ‘difficult to stomach’ rebranding themselves as unionists or nationalists for longer than a day.’
‘When I was a missionary in Africa (placed by a non-sectarian group working at a Catholic mission hospital), 70 percent of rural health care was done by missionaries.’
‘The organisation is non-party political and non-sectarian, which added greatly to its early success, and all women over 16 years of age, regardless of religious or political beliefs were eligible to join.’
‘This is the whole idea behind his faith-based initiatives program, is that faith-based organizations can stand side by side with secular, non-sectarian organizations in providing charitable services.’
‘Its claim to be a non-sectarian, non-political, non-religious humanitarian charity is a sham.’
‘Rejecting theocracy, Althusius developed a non-sectarian, non-religious contractualist political theory of federations that prohibited state intervention even for purposes of promoting the right faith.’
‘The Mission was started as an independent non-sectarian project by two members of the Centenary Methodist Chapel.’
‘We were the only major party to increase our share of the vote and I believe that our positive and non-sectarian attitude was the reason.’
‘Paul inspired those of us new to politics in 1968 with his principles, humour and non-sectarian politics.’
‘Both advance themselves as non-sectarian and dedicated to bridging the gap between Protestants and Catholics.’