secularization

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The prophets of secularization were absolutely certain that religious belief would recede in the modern age.

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  1. The act of rendering secular, or the state of being secularized. Conversion to secularism: as, the secularization of the masses. Conversion to merely secular uses or purposes: as, the secularization of church property, especially called alienation (see alienation ); the secularization of the Sabbath; on the Continent, especially in the former German empire, the transfer of territory from ecclesiastical to temporal rulers: as, the secularization of the bishopric of Halberstadt in the Peace of Westphalia. Absolution or release from the vows or rules of a monastic order; change from the status of regular to that of secular: as, the secularization of a monk. The exclusion of religion and ecclesiasticism from civil or purely secular affairs; the exclusion from the affairs of this life of considerations regarding the life to come; the divorce of civil and sacred matters: as, the secularization of education or of politics.
  2. Also spelled secularisation.

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  • Despite growing secularization, a secular progressive majority is still impossible, and a new two-part approach is needed -- one that first admits that there is no political wall of separation. —  Talk To Action
  • This secularization was further continued by the Khan invasions of the thirteenth century, which saw the Mamluks come to power through their defense of the nation (note, defense of the nation, not the faith). —  Stolen Thunder
  • Putnam and Habermas can rejoin that we teachers do our best to be Socratic, to get our job of re-education, secularization, and liberalization done by conversational exchange. —  The Doctor Is In
  • This is the problem of any theory of modernization as progress toward (universal) secularization, and so we are left with the messy and uneven historical process whereby technological advances in no way guarantee the adoption of "scientific" attitudes. —  Serendip's Exchange -
  • When Crowley reflected that this secularization is taking place in the younger generation, Bill said, "It's cool to be a non believer." —  News Hounds
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  1. from French sécularisation = Spanish secularizacion = Portuguese secularisação = Italian secolarizzazione; as secularize + -ation.
 

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