Sentence examples for a secularisation from inspiring English sources

Nietzsche's work is a secularisation of this revolution.

It often had a strong anti-Catholic bent; it was a secularisation of the liberal Protestant hatred of Church power.

What we call "fundamentalism" has always existed in a symbiotic relationship with a secularisation that is experienced as cruel, violent and invasive.

She wrote that examples of a "militant secularisation" taking hold of society could be seen in a number of things - "when signs of religion cannot be displayed or worn in government buildings; when states won't fund faith schools; and where religion is sidelined, marginalised and downgraded in the public sphere".

The Muslim minister Baroness Warsi said that "a militant secularisation… that… demonstrates similar traits to totalitarian regimes" is taking hold in Britain.

Alongside this came a growing secularisation of society, which emphasised that the modern human being could do the business of living and dying by relying on sheer common sense, a good accountant, a sympathetic doctor and hearty doses of faith in science.

Britain is under threat from a rising tide of "militant secularisation", a cabinet minister has warned.

It was not a question of the west discovering a natural law; rather, secularisation was a contingent development.

While this book is considerably longer than it needed to be - Harris has a tendency to over-explain his case - it is an eminently sensible rallying cry for a more ruthless secularisation of society.

This article was also amended to correct a reference to secularisation, when it originally said secularism.

Smith believes that there is a way in which rational modes of thought gradually establish themselves in the popular mind, and to this extent he thinks that there is something in the idea that modernity brings a kind of secularisation - what Max Weber, one of the founders of modern sociology, called the "disenchantment of the world".