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/sˌɛkjʊləɹaɪzˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession
- 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
How To Use secularisation In A Sentence
- Although Jameson is clear-eyed about the corrosive effects of modernity, his methodology nevertheless seemed to require his allegiance to secularization and to convergence theories of modernization; moreover, the acuity and insight of the readings produced by this methodology served to justify that faith a posteriori. Introduction
- The problem of religion secularization rose to an agenda as the growing of human self - awareness.
- Doctoral dissertation: " Secularisation and Christianity in Contemporary Britain".
- In the 19th century, the church denounced this secularisation of moral values as the perversity of liberalism, which it condemned and against which it fought.
- Dunkeld; for this fact illustrates one of the great evils under which the Scottish Church was at this time labouring, namely the usurpation of abbeys and benefices by great secular chieftains, an abuse existing side by side, and closely connected with, the scandal of concubinage among the clergy, with its inevitable consequence, the hereditary succession to benefices, and wholesale secularization of the property of the Church. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- Ironically, therefore, institutional religion is a product of secularization.
- A first step toward secularization was the separation from the Church of Rome and the beginnings of toleration of religious diversity.
- A first step toward secularization was the separation from the Church of Rome and the beginnings of toleration of religious diversity.
- The technocracy's acquisition of power via the state and the progression of exaggerated secularization have combined to give rise to a number of social phenomena which have themselves become social determinants.
- But modernity is fuelled by secularization: in our times, political authority must be not merely the enforcer of natural or consuetudinary law, but rather the producer of law.