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The 58 pages that link to Secularization, each with the reason it gives.
RitualCompared with: Secularization can change ritual settings and meanings without eliminating ritualized action.
SecularismCompared with: Secularism is a political principle; secularization describes broader social change.
MythCompared with: Secularization changes where myths hold authority without necessarily ending mythmaking.
Social changeRelated: It describes a change in how authority and meaning are organized in society.
Modernization theoryRelated: The theory often links modernization with declining religious authority, though the relationship varies.
Religious authorityRelated: Changing public institutions can reduce the reach of religious authorities.
ModernityRelated: It marks the changing place of religion in modern public life.
Denis DiderotRelated: Diderot’s materialist writing helped make nonreligious explanations part of Enlightenment debate.
New religious movementRelated: Changing religious authority creates conditions in which alternative communities can attract adherents.
Rite of passageCompared with: Transition rituals may persist in secular settings, complicating claims that modernization eliminates ritual.
Anno DominiRelated: Common Era terminology reflects efforts to use the inherited year numbers without explicitly Christian labels.
Sacred kingshipCompared with: It helps explain the changing place of sacred claims in modern political authority.
State religionCompared with: It helps explain why some states reduce religious institutions’ public authority over time.
BlasphemyRelated: Secularization has changed whether and how states punish offenses against religion.
Reform WarNarrower topic: The Liberal settlement advanced a lasting transfer of public authority from the Church to the state.
WorshipRelated: Secularization changes where worship occurs and how visible it is in public life.
Science and religionRelated: Claims that science causes religious decline remain central to the relationship’s history.
Sacred geographyCompared with: Changing religious influence can alter how communities use, interpret, or protect sacred places.
Social conservatismCompared with: It can weaken the institutional and cultural foundations that social conservatives seek to sustain.
Sociology of religionRelated: It names a major proposed transformation in religion’s relationship with modern societies.
Age of EnlightenmentRelated: Enlightenment criticism contributed to new boundaries between religious institutions and political or intellectual life.
ChristianizationCompared with: It describes a different transformation: the weakening rather than expansion of religious authority.
Common EraRelated: The shift from AD to CE changes the framing without changing the chronology.
ExorcismCompared with: Secular frameworks recast alleged possession as a matter for medical, psychological, or social inquiry.
State atheismCompared with: Secularization can occur without state coercion, unlike policies that actively suppress religion.
Religious humanismRelated: Religious humanism offers one way religious communities adapt to increasingly secular settings.
The Sacred and the ProfaneCompared with: It raises whether modern societies weaken, relocate, or preserve sacred boundaries.
Sacred mountainCompared with: Sacred claims may compete with policies that treat a mountain chiefly as public land or resource.
José Santos ZelayaRelated: Zelaya’s government reduced the Catholic Church’s political influence through liberal reforms.
Ernest RenanRelated: Renan’s historical treatment of Christianity became a prominent expression of nineteenth-century secular scholarship.
Paul TillichRelated: Tillich sought ways for Christian theology to address societies increasingly shaped by secular culture.
Religious organizationRelated: Changing social conditions can reduce participation in religious institutions.
SacrednessCompared with: Secularization can weaken established ways of assigning sacred status.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismRelated: The book raises the question of whether capitalism retains habits formed under religious influence.
Axial AgeRelated: Some accounts connect modern secular thought to transformations traced back to Axial traditions.
Buddhism in the WestRelated: Secular social settings influence how Buddhist institutions present doctrine, practice, and public identity.
Church historyRelated: It frames disputes over whether modernity weakens, transforms, or redirects church influence.
Cultural conservatismRelated: It can unsettle religiously grounded norms that cultural conservatives seek to retain.
Gabriel García MorenoCompared with: Ecuador’s later secular reforms directly challenged the church-centered public order of his presidency.
ChristendomCompared with: It describes a historical shift away from the social order once associated with Christian societies.
Christmas traditionsRelated: It helps explain how Christmas customs can persist outside Christian observance.
ChurchCompared with: Declining church authority is one common setting in which secularization is studied.
Terry EagletonRelated: Eagleton’s later work questions assumptions that modernity simply leaves religion behind.
Christian cultureCompared with: It provides a contrast for societies where Christian institutions once strongly organized public life.
Criticism of ChristianityRelated: Criticism has contributed to challenges against churches' political and cultural authority.
Criticism of religionRelated: Religious criticism can contribute to this change, though secularization has multiple causes.
Karl LöwithRelated: His account treats modern progress ideas as transformed theological expectations.
National churchRelated: It has prompted many national churches to relinquish state functions while retaining cultural prominence.
PhilosophesRelated: Philosophe critiques contributed to later arguments for separating civil authority from church power.
Sociocultural evolutionRelated: It provides a case for examining how beliefs and institutions change together.