dechristianization
Stripping religious identity
Dechristianization is the process of removing Christian influence from a society, institution, or culture.
The term often appears in historical contexts, particularly the French Revolution's campaign against the Catholic Church: The dechristianization of France included renaming churches and banning religious symbols.
More broadly, it describes any decline or deliberate reduction of Christianity's role in public life.
Religion losing social significance
- disestablishmentWithdrawal of official status
- disenchantmentLoss of cherished belief
- anticlericalismOpposition to church influence
- church-state separationGovernment religious neutrality doctrine
nationalization · expropriation · confiscation · suppression · dissolution · defection · apostasy · iconoclasm
Lenin's revolutionary party
- antireligiousOpposed to religion
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- iconoclasmAttacking revered traditions
- propagandaBiased information for influence
persecution · Stalin · clergy · monasteries · confiscation · museums · atheism · suppression
Separation of faith, state
- pluralismCoexistence of differing views
- indifferenceLack of interest
- declineDecrease or refuse
- disaffiliationFormal separation from organization
nones · liberalization · multiculturalism · tolerance · diversity · agnosticism · atheism · humanism
French revolutionary faction
- RobespierreRevolutionary who devoured himself
- ThermidorRevolutionary calendar's eleventh month
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
secularization
Religion losing social significance
- disestablishmentWithdrawal of official status
- disenchantmentLoss of cherished belief
- anticlericalismOpposition to church influence
church-state separation · nationalization · expropriation · confiscation · suppression · dissolution · defection · apostasy · iconoclasm · deconsecration
Bolsheviks
Lenin's revolutionary party
- antireligiousOpposed to religion
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- iconoclasmAttacking revered traditions
propaganda · persecution · Stalin · clergy · monasteries · confiscation · museums · atheism · suppression · exile
secularism
Separation of faith, state
- pluralismCoexistence of differing views
- indifferenceLack of interest
- declineDecrease or refuse
disaffiliation · nones · liberalization · multiculturalism · tolerance · diversity · agnosticism · atheism · humanism · freethought
Jacobins
French revolutionary faction
- RobespierreRevolutionary who devoured himself
- ThermidorRevolutionary calendar's eleventh month
- guillotineVertical beheading apparatus
- French RevolutionBastille, guillotine, Robespierre, French Revolution, Marie Antoinette
- French CatholicismCatholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Notre-Dame, Sacre-Coeur, Joan of Arc
- religious apathylukewarmness, irreligion, unchurched, spiritual void
- secularizationsecularization, disaffiliation, church closures, church-state separation, secular state
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
dechristianizationChristianization
Converting societies to Christianity
Christian revival · religious revival · evangelization · Great Awakening · religious awakening
Christian, Christianity, Christianization, Christianized, Christianize, Christianizing, un-Christian, anti-Christian, pre-Christian