Secularization and Modern Society

Secularization is important. But whether is it important to civil society or to a state. For the modern society, secularization of the larger society is very vital. It can promote and assure a secular state. But in some countries, secularization is associated with secularism. In other words it is also known as religious tolerance.  If we wish for a secular state, we must abandon the doctrine of intolerance & we need to accept the irreversible process of modernization & the resultant decline of religion.

In the initial phase of modernity, secularization was treated as an effort of market condition, it means secularization should be analyzed in economic way. Again the modernity sees the process of secularization in political way. The advocates of secularization tend to be also opted of a centralized bureaucratic state, in which local elites have been replaced by national elites. For them, secularization is also a process that implies political centralization, the abolish of local and religious autonomy, the marginalizes and disestablishment of old elites and revolution in social morals. In nutshell, the concept of equality comes in to front.

Religion can be understood not as an ideology to fight with secularism but an option to cope with the contingencies of life. The failure and the lacuna of secular regimes can be addressed through religious resources.  Till to date, we have been struggling to understand religion. It is a gift of western modernity. In sum, we can say that the secularization is the combination of an assertion about changes in the presence and nature of religion and a collection of related explanations of those changes.