Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See secularization, secularize.
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- noun Alternative form of
secularization .
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- noun transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession
- noun the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion
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Examples
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A gradual change, which might be called secularisation, was occurring.
Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand Penny Griffith 1885
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Oostlander strongly opposes what is known as the secularisation premise, which claims that democratic development benefits from reduced religious involvement.
Gates of Vienna 2008
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Thirdly and quite simply, "secularisation" is not part of the problem.
Irish Blogs Zoomtard 2010
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The problem is that the term 'secularisation' is ideologically loaded and is based on the secular-modernist assumption that as society progresses, religion will inevitably wither and die.
SA Latest News Jeremy Halcrow 2009
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If by 'secularisation' you mean merely that less people are willing to nominally identify with Christianity - who can argue?
SA Latest News Jeremy Halcrow 2009
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The recommendations were part of a "secularisation" of the community, and would cause "unbearable circumstances for all
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In the 1830s, king Ludwig I of Bavaria (whose father Maximilian I had acquired the former Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg in the secularisation of 1802/03) determined that the cathedral ought to be returned to its "original" state.
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These are signs, it is not about change for change's sake, it is about looking for the whole meaning and overcoming the secularisation of our world.
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In his allocution to the first group of the Brazilian bishops, who are currently making their obligatory ad limina-visits, Pope Benedict XVI included another forceful repudiation of the hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture and a rather severe indictment of the self-secularisation of the Church in the wake of the Second Vatican Council.
Another Strong Reprobation of the Hermeneutic of Rupture by Pope Benedict 2009
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Thus the abbey even survived the secularisation of 1803.
Neuzelle Abbey 2009
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