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The 58 pages that link to Secularization, each with the reason it gives.

• 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.

• Anno DominiRelated: Common Era terminology reflects efforts to use the inherited year numbers without explicitly Christian labels.

• BlasphemyRelated: Secularization has changed whether and how states punish offenses against religion.

• 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.

• 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.

• Common EraRelated: The shift from AD to CE changes the framing without changing the chronology.

• Religious humanismRelated: Religious humanism offers one way religious communities adapt to increasingly secular settings.

• 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.

• 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.

• Christmas traditionsRelated: It helps explain how Christmas customs can persist outside Christian observance.

• Terry EagletonRelated: Eagleton’s later work questions assumptions that modernity simply leaves religion behind.

• 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.

• Demographics of atheismRelated: Population-level declines in religious belief are often interpreted through secularization theories.

• IrreligionRelated: It describes broad social changes often associated with rising irreligion, but is not identical to individual nonbelief.

• Paul BénichouRelated: It names the historical transformation Bénichou traced through French literature.

• Sexual ritualRelated: It helps explain how practices once framed ritually can acquire secular interpretations.

• Theories about religionRelated: Theories of modernization have long disputed whether social change causes religion to decline.