| But American exceptionalism has merely delayed secularization, not halted it. |
| Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization. |
| Isabel knew that his secularization had been sanctioned by The Higher Court. |
| The desacralization resulting from exaggerated secularization has resulted in a value vacuum which is being filled by a utilitarian ethic. |
| It would not surprise many to hear that the professional study of religion was a more efficient cause of secularization than the natural sciences. |
| Studies of religious revivals throughout the former Soviet Union must account for the impact of decades of forced secularization. |
