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 secularization 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 desacralization resulting from exaggerated secularization has resulted in a value vacuum which is being filled by a utilitarian ethic.
- Claims are made about the total irrelevance of humanism to the secularisation process.
- Though the secularization of monks is not secularity of Yuan Danasty , it is the most prominent.
- Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (Middle Ages S.
- My generation, I insist, has equated openness to the world with conversion to secularization, and has experienced a certain fascination regarding it. Two Generations, Two Ecclesiologies: Secretary of Congregation for Catholic Education to Rectors of Pontifical Seminaries
- Professor Copley pointed out that the secularisation process of RE has taken the divine out of religion since the 1960s and 1970s.
- Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization.
- The awakening historical conscious - ness that advanced salvationist schemes in theology since the eighteenth century led in the course of a general secularization of culture to a secular idea of eschatology also. ESCHATOLOGY
- Governor Chafee's solution to call the spruce in the State House a "Holiday Tree" has elicited howls of outrage from citizens complaining of the secularization of this Christian holiday. Jeffrey Small: The Origins Of Christmas