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desecularization  

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  • For well over a century since the inception of the social-scientific study of religion, there was a broad consensus that the importance of religion was waning in the modernizing world. The cause for this putative decline was traced to various developments, including the increased division of labor in society, capitalism, and the nature of Protestant Christianity itself. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Desecularization]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/desecularization

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