Secularization

Quick meaning: Secularization is a noun meaning The deconsecration of a church.

Meaning

The deconsecration of a church.

More Meanings

1. The act of becoming secular.
2. The transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values and secular institutions.

Example Sentences

[C]onservative Christian organizations have pushed back against what they describe as the secularization of Christmas.

Wojtyla and Mazowiecki come from the same Krakow intellectual circles that advocated the secularization of politics and led the recent efforts for Polish-Jewish dialogue.

[H]e took advantage of several developments: the ongoing secularization of art and painting’s growing attention to actual people, and its rising status as portable market commodity.

Word Forms

• secularizations
• secularisation

Synonyms for secularization

Depending on context, synonyms include deconfessionalization, deconsecration, desacralization, laicization, secularisation.

Antonyms for secularization

Common opposites include desecularization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include secularisation, secularity, secularism, disenchantment, statism, parareligion.

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