secularisation

Noun

Meaning

transfer of property from ecclesiastical to civil possession

the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion

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Both Marx and Auguste Comte set out to develop scientifically justified ideologies in the wake of European secularisation and new developments in the philosophies of history and science. Source: Internet

Catherine the Great: A Profile (New York: Hill and Wang, 1972), 298. By separating the public interests from those of the church, Catherine began a secularisation of the day-to-day workings of Russia. Source: Internet

How could religious bodies possibly support such a secularisation of our charitable outreaches? Source: Internet

Increasing secularisation was accompanied by the decline of the church. Source: Internet

It may be right to see Huxley's life and work as contributing to the secularisation of British society which gradually occurred over the following century. Source: Internet

There was both a suspicion of their excesses and of their tendency to political interference which brought them into conflict with the progressive secularisation of culture. Source: Internet

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