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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write a note on global trends of secularization.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Religion and Society

Secularisation, in Bryan R. Wilson's sense, is the loss of social significance of religious thinking, practice and institutions. Worldwide it is not one trend but several, moving in different directions across regions, generations and levels of social life.

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  • 1. Decline in Western Europe
  • 2. Plateau in the United States
  • 3. Vitality in the Global South
  • 4. Generational decline
  • 5. Transformation, not disappearance
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  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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