Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of rendering secular, or the state of being secularized.
- noun Also spelled
secularisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses.
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- noun The transformation of a
society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- 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
- noun transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession
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Examples
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The view that religious belief will give way to atheism is known as the secularization thesis.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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But although the younger men were born in secularization as their natural environment and drank it together with their mother's milk, they still seek to distance themselves from it, and defend their identity and their differences.
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The view that religious belief will give way to atheism is known as the secularization thesis.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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The view that religious belief will give way to atheism is known as the secularization thesis.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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The view that religious belief will give way to atheism is known as the secularization thesis.
Nigel Barber: When Will Atheism Prevail Over Religion? Nigel Barber 2011
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(Though see this post by Brink Lindsey, which summarizes some reasons to think secularization is indeed proceeding, however slowly.)
Faith & Fertility 2007
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This headlong secularization is as big a story, in its way, as Europe's demographic decline.
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This headlong secularization is as big a story, in its way, as Europe's demographic decline.
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The word secularization has a very different meaning when applied not to persons but to things.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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The word secularization may also be applied to the abandonment by the Church of its goods to purchasers after governmental confiscations, most frequently after a merciful composition or arrangement.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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