This headlong secularization is as big a story, in its way, as Europe's demographic decline. From Wordnik.com. [The Widening Atlantic] Reference
The word secularization has a very different meaning when applied not to persons but to things. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
(Though see this post by Brink Lindsey, which summarizes some reasons to think secularization is indeed proceeding, however slowly.). From Wordnik.com. [Faith & Fertility] Reference
This change is known as the secularization of American education. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization] Reference
This proposition soon came to be known as the secularization thesis. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, Gods!] Reference
A great many ecclesiastical lands, and this spoliation is what is referred to as the secularization by Charles Martel. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
If you will, it is the "secularization" of clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Teologie pentru azi] Reference
In the "secularization" of 1803 these domains were made over to Bavaria. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
"secularization" as in California, because there was nothing to confiscate. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
"secularization," though of course in many particulars the cases are quite different. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Franciscan Missions Of California] Reference
Yet secularization is losing force in its own backyard. From Wordnik.com. [Faith's Comeback] Reference
In 845 the emperor Wu Tsung issued his decree of secularization. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism and Buddhists in China] Reference
So oddly enough, modernity and education don ` t lead to secularization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007] Reference
Other depressing influences were to be found in the secularization of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient)] Reference
It was he too who, by the secularization on the one hand and by the dismemberment of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
There's also a large public outcry against the secularization of Christmas, though, this year. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 21, 2004] Reference
With the secularization of the missions in 1833-34 came a change in the peaceful pastoral life. From Wordnik.com. [History of California] Reference
As you wrote then, this secularization theory was "yesterday's incorrect vision of the future.". From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Robbins: Religion for the Rest of Us] Reference
Iraqis, freedom is an American idea, as is democratization and secularization and modernization. From Wordnik.com. [Jeffrey Goldberg: The American Idea, from Iraq] Reference
Important in its own right, the success of the trials is crucial to the secularization process as well. From Wordnik.com. [Bangladesh's Secular Revolution] Reference
We only desire to guard ourselves from appearing to assume the probability of the secularization of our. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
For years, observers have proclaimed that secularization, in America and in the Academy, is inevitable. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Sloan Announces Decision to Leave Baylor University Presidency] Reference
Similarly, the secularization of Christmas was greatly advanced by the fact that it is a national holiday. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
Movement, the acceleration of social and technological change, and increasing secularization of public life. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Smiley: Jane's Bingo! Award for Most Informative Book of 2006] Reference
But something more than secularization of the course of study is required to satisfy the idea of a university. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
DOBBS: This is within the theological context, this is within the context of at the best beginning a secularization. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2003] Reference
The story is more momentous, however, because growing secularization at some point reaches a cultural tipping point. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Ledewitz: Secular Life in Post-Christian America] Reference
III on Italy shows that in 1857 he definitely proposed to Austria a scheme for the total secularization of the Papacy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman] Reference
Gardels: Modernization has usually also meant the growing secularization of society and the primacy of science and reason. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: The End of History -- 20 Years Later] Reference
Is it just the demise of the "secularization hypothesis" and the evident persistence of religious belief that is driving them wild?. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Lakeland: Being Secular, Being Religious] Reference
Conservative warlords like Abdulrab Rasul Sayaf and Burhanuddin Rabbani passionately argued against the secularization of government. From Wordnik.com. [Now, The Hard Part] Reference
That survey showed a rapid increase in secularization in America, doubling since 1990 and a drop in all kinds of religious affiliation. From Wordnik.com. [Bruce Ledewitz: Secular Life in Post-Christian America] Reference
The country's identity is thoroughly islamic, and the enforced secularization under Ataturk failed to affect a profound change of identity. From Wordnik.com. [Comment on: The English Bible has made us] Reference
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