| Thus, once independence had been achieved, the liberals tried to get rid of the church's privileges and to secularize education. |
| As there is nothing which the heart cannot sanctify, so is there nothing which it may not secularize. |
| Berger notes that modernity does not necessarily secularize us but it does pluralize us. |
| They could, for instance, secularize without rejecting religion in their social identity, they could pursue women's emancipation without rejecting, on a theoretical basis, femininity and motherhood. |
| After the arguments to secularize the holiday season in public, a battle has risen anew to put religion back in. |
| The Carmelites had persecuted him in his youth, and in the end the prior had driven him to secularize himself. |
