secularizes
Strips religious significance
Secularizes means to remove religious character or control from something.
A government secularizes education by eliminating prayer and religious instruction from public schools.
Institutions, societies, or practices can be secularized: The reforms secularized marriage, making it a civil rather than church matter.
The process often involves transferring authority from religious to civil hands.
Philosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- freethoughtReason-based belief formation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
- naturalismWorldview excluding the supernatural
positivism · materialism · agnosticism · atheism · skepticism · irreligion · nontheism · disbelief
Withdrawal of official status
- separationState of being apart
- deconsecrationRemoval of sacred status
- privatizationState sells public assets
- reformImprove by correcting faults
transformation · transition · conversion · shift · change · modernization · liberalization · democratization
State of existing briefly
- mundanityEveryday, unremarkable quality
- earthlinessTerrestrial, material nature
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
- carnalityPursuit of bodily pleasures
pragmatism · realism · materialism · consumerism · commercialization · commodification · desanctification · demystification
Systematic development of mind
- governmentAuthority over a state
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- marriageFormal union between partners
- institutionsEstablished organizations or practices
schools · hospitals · charities · universities · courts · ceremonies · holidays · oaths
humanism
Philosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- freethoughtReason-based belief formation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- empiricismKnowledge through observation
naturalism · positivism · materialism · agnosticism · atheism · skepticism · irreligion · nontheism · disbelief · enlightenment
disestablishment
Withdrawal of official status
- separationState of being apart
- deconsecrationRemoval of sacred status
- privatizationState sells public assets
reform · transformation · transition · conversion · shift · change · modernization · liberalization · democratization · institutionalization
temporality
State of existing briefly
- mundanityEveryday, unremarkable quality
- earthlinessTerrestrial, material nature
- profanityVulgar or obscene speech
carnality · pragmatism · realism · materialism · consumerism · commercialization · commodification · desanctification · demystification · disenchantment
education
Systematic development of mind
- governmentAuthority over a state
- lawBinding principle or regulation
- marriageFormal union between partners
institutions · schools · hospitals · charities · universities · courts · ceremonies · holidays · oaths · burials
secularizesconsecrates
Makes ritually holy
sanctifies · hallows · blesses · deifies · Christianizes