| The secularization debate is primarily concerned with the role or power of religion and churches in society. |
| The desacralization resulting from exaggerated secularization has resulted in a value vacuum which is being filled by a utilitarian ethic. |
| Historians sometimes make the mistake of thinking that early modern religious dissent argues secularization. |
| It is only in Europe, moreover, that the connections between modernization and secularization are relatively strong. |
| The secularization of concepts of space was necessary to the new natural philosophy or science. |
| Studies of religious revivals throughout the former Soviet Union must account for the impact of decades of forced secularization. |
