Sociology / Unit 8 Soc 1351 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Secularization Means Religion Is Disappearing"
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The idea
Treating secularization as religion's disappearance collapses the institutional measure into the individual one, missing people who identify as spiritual but not religious.
In practice
A person leaving formal religious affiliation while still praying daily registers as secularizing on one measure and not on the other.
Where people slip
Secularization concerns institutions' social standing; it makes no claim about how many individuals still hold religious belief.
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