Secularization in a sentence

It’s not that conservative churches inevitably grow while liberal ones shrink; plenty of doctrinally conservative forms of Christianity have suffered buffets or declines, and there is certainly no simple “conservative” solution for secularization.

Despite growing secularization, a renewed need to find meaning and connection is also emerging, pushing many people towards alternative forms of commemoration.

In contrast to the fleeting sunlight hours of the Norwegian winter, the new monastery now perpetually shines as a beacon of hope and sign of faith in a country characterized by strong secularization and growing irreligiosity.

Speaking on the heels of Carlson’s fawning chat with Putin, Simonyan saw a major opportunity for Russia to find fellow travelers and new allies among those disgruntled by secularization in the West.

The Pontiff also held an audience with Catholics in the Gothic 17th-century Notre-Dame Cathedral, in which he emphasized the historically Catholic country’s need to evangelize Europe in the face of rapidly growing secularization.

Christians are demonized as intolerant for resisting hyper-secularization of every facet of American life; Jews remain targets for allegedly exercising malevolent economic and political influence behind the scenes.

And, boy, you’re talking about a rich harvest field in a culture that’s in despair because of its secularization.

As a person of faith, I hear a lot about the menace of secularization.

According to Foucault, the rise of body-centered discourses necessarily involved a process of secularization.

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.

After the Mexican secularization act of 1833 most of the mission's land and livestock was sold off by Mexico.

Bryan Wilson Wilson is a writer on secularization who is alarmed about the nature of life in a society dominated by scientific knowledge.

Church leaders had argued that age-old secularization was to blame and that it was not directly related to the documents of the Council.

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.

Following the secularization of the abbey around 1800 the former Abbey church became a Cathedral in 1848.

He established diplomatic relations with most major countries and, following a 1927 tour of Europe and Turkey (during which he noted the modernization and secularization advanced by Atatürk ), introduced several reforms intended to modernize Afghanistan.

In 1834, the Mexican government enacted secularization laws whereby most church property was sold or granted to private owners.

In short, presupposed secularization as a decline in religiosity might seem to be a myth, depending on its definition and the definition of its scope.

Merger In 1968, in the wake of the Parent Commission Report, which recommended for the secularization of Quebec's educational system, the Quebec government asked Loyola College and Sir George Williams University to consider some form of union.

No effective review of the secularization of the Sonoma mission was even completed.