Secularization is a concept important to science, technology, and ethics, because it encapsulates influential general theories about how moral influence may be exercised over and by science and technology under different historical and social...

Although it is common to spell this concept out fully as ‘religious secularization’, the extra word is redundant. Secularization means becoming secular, that is non-spiritual, non-religious, with the contrast being the sacred....

Secularization is the process by which the sacred gives way to the secular, whether in matters of personal faith, institutional practice, and political power. It involves a transition in which things once revered become ordinary, the sanctified becomes...

SECULARIZATION. The term secularization came into use in European languages at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, where it was used to describe the transfer of territories previously under ecclesiastical control to the dominion of lay political...

Secularization or secularisation generally refers to the process of transformation by which a society migrates from close identification with religious institutions to a more separated relationship. It is also the name given to a general belief about...

This paper was originally delivered as the 2005 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Address. On 4 November 2004 I read a report in the Sydney Morning Herald that I found genuinely shocking, a statement by Cardinal George Pell, of the Catholic diocese of Sydney,...

CHRISTIANITY AND THE SECULAR by ROBERT A. MARKUS University of Notre Dame Press, 99 pages, $15 IN HOC INTERIM SAECULO: "In this transitory world," St. Augustine says in the City of God, referring to the subject of his long meditation. What...

Thousands of flag-waving Turks filled a square in this Black Sea coastal city on Sunday in the latest of a series of nationwide protests against the pro-Islamic government they fear is challenging secular Turkish society.The demonstration in Samsun follows massive protests in Turkey's three largest...

More than 10,000 Turks gathered in two western cities Saturday to protest the Islamic-rooted government, calling for Turkey's secular system to be preserved.The protests in Canakkale and Manisa, two cities near Turkey's Aegean coast, follow massive pro-secular demonstrations in Ankara and Istanbul that were attended...