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Define Secularisation. What are its major dimensions in the modern world?

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  • Religion and Society

Bryan R. Wilson (Religion in Secular Society, 1966) defined secularisation as the process whereby religious thinking, practice and institutions lose social significance. Peter L. Berger (The Sacred Canopy, 1967) stressed its structural side: sectors of society and culture are removed from the domination of religious institutions and symbols. In India, M. N. Srinivas described it…

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