Sentence examples for a secularization from inspiring English sources

Modern planning and projection of alternative futures is a secularization of the end-time expectations previously envisioned in Christian terms.

In this area, as in others, a secularization of church institutions took place in connection with the spreading autonomy of the cities.

In his view, American bishops, emboldened by the Second Vatican Council in 1962-65, began "moving toward a secularization of the church".

Despite growing secularization, a secular progressive majority is still impossible, and a new two-part approach is needed--one that first admits that there is no political wall of separation.

More or less Euhemeristic historical accounts that were common in the Middle Ages and were a symptom of a certain secularization process themselves gave way to history writing, focusing on psychological, social, and economic facts.

Turkey's first president, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a military revolutionary, led a fierce secularization drive in the 1920s.

While acknowledging the divides in ritual and dogma, the document presented them as allies against "a widespread secularization" that "increasingly descends into a moral, intellectual and spiritual nihilism".

In advance for an official visit to the Vatican, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim woman to sit in a British cabinet, spoke of the perils of a "militant secularization" that she called "deeply intolerant".

While the tones were measured, Father Lombardi repeated the church's analysis of what caused a profusion of abuse cases of past decades: the sexual revolution and a general secularization of society.

In the thought of the Italian political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli may be seen a complete secularization of political philosophy.

Modernity brought a gradual secularization to the academy, so that scholars in theology became assimilated to colleagues in other faculties and adopted their procedures.