SECULARIZATION IN THEORY AND FACT.
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June, 2000 by Neuhaus, Richard John
Many of the most influential secularization theorists have been Europeans, especially German and French. Since the eighteenth century and up to the present--albeit with fits and starts and many convolutions--it does seem that Western Europe has been on a course of inexorable secularization. In both public and personal life, the institutions, observances, and teachings associated with religion--in this case meaning Christianity--appear to be ever more marginal, giving credibility to the idea that there is a necessary connection between modernity and secularity. The more modern a society, the more secular it will become. In this context, scholars regularly spoke about "American exceptionalism." Why is it, they asked, that the United States, presumably the most modern of...
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