secularization
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- noun
- /ˌsɛkjʊləraɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Specialized
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secularización
- The secularization of education has led to a curriculum that is free from religious influence.
- secularization process
- secularization of society
- secularization thesis
Examples
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But their ideology became more obsolete as secularization gained power.
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The trend toward secularization, Hunter maintained, was most evident in the area of family.
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Perhaps the greatest was secularization, which gained momentum in the previous century.
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So one can see how America could be the first to go through institutional secularization.
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But as the secularization of our societies continues apace, religion will become ever more marginal.
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So we see immense secularization of public institutions and, especially in Europe, widespread indifference to organized Christianity.
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James Davison Hunter was among the first to conduct research on the process of secularization at American evangelical colleges.
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Finally, a cultural crisis evolved around the partial rejection of westernization and secularization of society that accompanied modernization.
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The contemporary impediment to justice in an age of globalization, however, does not derive primarily from secularization or atheism.
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The process is popularly known in the sociology of religion literature as secularization, and is poignantly described by Tomka as follows:
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
The act of making institutions free from religious control
Removing Christian beliefs and practices from a person, group, or institution
To remove a building's religious status so it can be used for other things
How Secular
Surface Forms
Morphology
secularization = secularize (transparent) = secular + ize + ation
The noun is formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ation' to the verb 'secularize' (secular + -ize), yielding the process/result sense in a regular way.
Etymology
Secularization comes from secular, which means 'of the world' or 'not religious', and the part -ization, which means 'the process of making'. So secularization is the process of making art, schools, or society less under religion and more 'of the world'.