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"But as the country goes on secularizing, there is less and less money available to keep the buildings going."

Mr. Imswiler said that there had been a steady "secularizing of our education," that children are being taught "the religion of secular humanism."

He rescinds the two reforms of King Amanullah which had most embittered the population - the suppression of the purdah and the secularizing of the law.

His teachings concerning the danger attaching to the secularizing of the Church put Wycliffe into line with the mendicant orders, since in 1377 Minorites were his defenders.

Related to this is the drive of the Donmeh in Turkey for secularizing their society just as European Jews promoted the values of Age of Enlightenment and its Jewish equivalent the haskalah.

After the secularizing of the Missions, many of the surviving Mission Indians switched from being unpaid workers for the missions to unpaid laborers and vaqueros (cowboys) of the about 500 large Californio owned ranchos.

Weber's thought regarding the rationalizing and secularizing tendencies of modern Western society (sometimes described as the "Weber Thesis") would blend with Marxism to facilitate critical theory, particularly in the work of thinkers such as Jürgen Habermas.

This would effectively have ended Israel's Jewish majority and, by secularising the state, would have weakened its exclusive Jewish character.