secularise

IPA: sˈɛkjʌɫɝaɪz

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of secularize. [(transitive) To make secular.]

Examples of "secularise" in Sentences

Or will we, as Ken MacLeod posits in The Night Sessions, go to war and in the aftermath completely secularise society?
The whole purpose of the second Vatican council was to "secularise" Christianity; to make it less confrontational with other faiths.
The presenter, who was replaced on the Radio 2 show in 2006 by Aled Jones, claimed the broadcaster was trying to 'secularise the country'.
The landlord who bought himself a medieval abbey after the dissolution of the monasteries could happily secularise it by adding pagan detail.
We can cheer two more victories in the campaign to secularise everything in Europe except its temples and churches, which are, in any case, either neglected or swamped by tourists blind to their mysteries.
I am a Christian and I mind very much that there is a move to secularise Christmas … and I am delighted to see other faiths not only having their own Festivals but insisting that they are happy for us to have ours.
It was on this historic day that protestors began to secularise one of the most popular slogans of the 1979 revolution, changing it from 'independence, freedom, Islamic republic' to 'independence, freedom, Iranian Republic'.
Such a non-violent revolution could secularise the state, separating it from religion, and revolutionise religion itself by redefining Islam as a discourse of freedom and a method not for obtaining and managing power, but for expanding freedom.