Secularization

Secularization  means religion gets less important in modern societies. As the society goes through modernization, all the religious values and institutions decline. "The secularization debate", chapter 1 (pp. 3-32) in Norris, Pippa & Inglehart, Ronald 2004. Sacred and Secular: religion and politics worldwide. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-83984-6

The 1960s saw a trend toward  secularization in Western Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand. At the same time these things happened: economic prosperity, youth rebelling against the rules and conventions of society,  women's liberation, radical theology, and radical politics.Jeffrey Cox, "Secularization and other master narratives of religion in modern Europe." Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte (2001): 24-35.

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Secularism
Secular state

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