How to Use secularization in a Sentence

secularization

noun

• The increasing secularization in the U.S. plays a role, too, in falling church attendance — and was evident across the world even before the pandemic.
  — Karen Ann Cullotta, chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• In the future these same bishops will question why they are not listened to, why so many younger Catholics are abandoning the Catholic Church and why secularization seems to be growing in America.
  — Star Tribune, 16 June 2021
• The gradual loosening of the rules from the late 1960s onward was an admission of defeat, and the regime and its secularization of Christmas both ended up in the dustbin of history.
  — Stephen Sholl, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
• Correcting the record is important, but Dusenbury fails to drive home how getting Pilate’s guilt right informs the rise of secularization.
  — Nathaniel Peters, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• In Lebanon, forces from outside the country have always stoked confessional tensions to the detriment of the country’s secularization.
  — Mark Farha, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2019
• Five years ago, a Hui imam here surprised me by saying that secularization and corruption, not government suppression, were the largest threats to Hui belief.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2021
• In a context such as this, secularization becomes ineluctable.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 13 Dec. 2020
• And Hermanis’s Benedict is allowed to give serious presentation to his belief that the church does not have to follow the modern world down the path to increasing secularization.
  — Joan Acocella, The New York Review of Books, 14 May 2020
• The reasons for this shift are complex, including political changes that reduced the Catholic Church’s advantages over other religions, as well as growing secularization in much of the world.
  — Samantha Pearson, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2022
• But today, amid growing secularization, poor Mass attendance, declining revenue and the climbing costs of maintaining centuries-old places of worship, its doors are closed.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• Of course, another change is the growing secularization of social attitudes, even among those who identify as religious.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 18 Feb. 2022
• In addition to the far-right, Mr. Netanyahu’s likely coalition includes two ultra-Orthodox parties that oppose the secularization of Israeli public life.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2022
• Church leaders cite a variety of factors for the decline, including the growing secularization of Western society.
  — WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
• At the time, fellow educators actively opposed ideas of secularization, and especially the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.
  — Wandy Felicita Ortiz, refinery29.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• In the six decades since Kennedy’s time, however, rapid secularization within the left has resulted in a movement to essentially eradicate religion completely from the public sphere.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2021
• The secularization of public education was older than most people alive, and didn’t coincide with when these schools opened — desegregation did.
  — al, 21 Dec. 2022
• In the Arab world, too, recent surveys have found an increase in secularization and growing calls for reforms in religious political institutions.
  — Mustafa Akyol, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2022
• Young men aren't getting that much more secular, but women are, resulting in an aggregate of serious secularization.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 14 July 2010
• One factor in particular has shown a strong correlation to the mental decline of America’s youth: secularization.
  — WSJ, 17 May 2022
• As a researcher, Bullivant wanted to know why Americans, once considered the exception to the secularization that has happened in Europe and elsewhere, are suddenly losing their religion.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 Dec. 2022
• New report projects a future where Christianity, though diminished, persists, while non-Christian faiths grow amid rising secularization.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Epstein and humanism aren't to blame for the challenges of secularization in originally religious institutions.
  — Samuel Goldman, The Week, 27 Aug. 2021
• Social science has long predicted that our society is moving toward secularization as data, technology, and science replace beliefs in unseen forces.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2022
• Earlier periods of secularization in America have given way to periods of Christian renewal.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Americans' underappreciation of religion's role in Afghan life is no doubt partly attributable to ignorance of Islam, but our comparative secularization is the greater factor.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 17 Aug. 2021
• The nineteen-eighties, so violently transformative in Thatcher’s Britain, produced little evidence of general secularization in Ireland.
  — James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Such understandings also enrich and inform existing theories of religious change, particularly those related to secularization.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 May 2011

Last Updated: 3 Oct 2024