Secularisation

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.

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.

Increasing secularisation was accompanied by the decline of the church.

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.

Secularisation main Secularization is the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions.

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.

This required the removal of the existing hierarchy and the secularisation of ecclesiastical possessions.