Definition of "secularization" []

• The transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions. (noun)

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• "The view that religious belief will give way to atheism is known as the secularization thesis."
• "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."
• "(Though see this post by Brink Lindsey, which summarizes some reasons to think secularization is indeed proceeding, however slowly.)"