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Defining and measuring secularisation

Riva Black considers an issue of crucial relevance to the study of religion in the modern world

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In this article I will explore the wide range of definitions and meanings of secularisation.

This definition refers to the decline in the authority of religion where religion is no longer equated with power structures of society. The result of this kind of secularisation would be that religion no longer has any autonomous power without being accountable to higher authorities.

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