I felt that Jackson Pollock is a mix of both Jane Addams' religious style and his own unique belief system. Pollock is similar to Jane Addams in his intent to, through his belief system, reach the community and bridge the gap between rich and poor/people of different ethnic backgrounds. This is seen in his interest in anthropology and, as author Golding describes, his "attempt to resolve the clash and collision between Mexican and indigenous native American art with the mainstream of European modernsim" (118).
I see Pollock as definitely secular although he uses secular religion as an attempt to fulfill the holes in his life, which nonsecular religion (as a definition) provides such as an identity and comfort during tragedy.
Golding states that Pollock was not an intellectual but that his "reactions were visceral [feelings rather than reason] and he did his learning visually" (128). So, any sort of belief of Pollock's had to be something that he would relate to, which was visual/abstract are and Jungian symobls all of which can be interpreted according to one's own thoughts and feelings rather than reason. For example, when one looks at abstract are one says what comes first to mind, which may be what is in one's subconcious. Abstract art does not have to mean one thing, the title only suggests what the work meant to the artist.
From art, Pollock wished to find some sort of identity (such as skater's find with skateboarding). Golding describes this as a "dichotomy between the search for self and the longing to identify with an absolute- the greater than the self"' (116). This is where I see secular religion differing from nonsecular religion because in a nonsecular religion practitioners usually search for a personal identity but not an identity with a higher power because that crosses invisible status lines. For Pollock, his search for a personal identity failed. This is where I think secular religion fails in that people attempt to identify themselves with a higher being which they cannot achieve because they are only human, not gods.