Noun
The act of rendering secular, or the state of being rendered secular; conversion from regular or monastic to secular; conversion from religious to lay or secular possession and uses; as, the secularization of church property.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAccording to Foucault, the rise of body-centered discourses necessarily involved a process of secularization. Source: Internet
After secularization, Father-Presidente Narciso Durán transferred the missions' headquarters to Santa Bárbara, thereby making Mission Santa Bárbara the repository of some 3,000 original documents that had been scattered through the California missions. Source: Internet
After the Mexican secularization act of 1833 most of the mission's land and livestock was sold off by Mexico. Source: Internet
Factors such as secularization, increased participation of women in the labor force, changing in the meaning of marriage, risk reduction, individualism, and changing views on sexuality have been cited as contributing to these social changes. Source: Internet
Church leaders had argued that age-old secularization was to blame and that it was not directly related to the documents of the Council. Source: Internet
Bryan Wilson Wilson is a writer on secularization who is alarmed about the nature of life in a society dominated by scientific knowledge. Source: Internet