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Write short note on Secularization of societies in the modern world.

  • UPSC 2009
  • Religion and Society

The founders of sociology expected modern society to be secular: Auguste Comte saw the positive stage replacing the theological, Karl Marx expected religion to vanish with class exploitation, and Max Weber traced the "disenchantment of the world". Bryan R. Wilson later gave the working definition: the process by which religious thinking, practice and institutions lose…

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  • How societies secularise
  • Different national pathways
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