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the change I want to define and trace is one which takes us from a society in which it was virtually impossible not to believe in God, to one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is one human possibility among others  we need to see how it became possible to experience moral fullness, to identify the locus of our highest moral capacity and inspiration, without reference to God, but within the range of purely intra-human powers It has often been noted how secularization went along with an intensification of religious faith. The “message and driving force behind Reformation and Counter-Reformation” was that “religion was on its way to becoming a matter of intense personal decision.” In the nineteenth century, one of the key values was understood to be altruism. And in this regard exclusive humanism could claim to be superior to Christianity. First, Christianity offers extrinsic rewards for altruism in the hereafter, where humanism makes benevolence its own reward;  ...

“A Secular Age”,  2007. Charles Taylor whereas the political organization of all pre-modern societies was in some way connected to, based on, guaranteed by some faith in, or adherence to God, or some notion of ultimate reality, the modernWestern state is free from this connection. Churches are now separate from political structures Mientras la organización política de todas las sociedades premodernas estaba en alguna medida conectada a, basada en, o garantizada por alguna fe o aderencia a Dios, o alguna noción de realidad en última instancia, el estado occidental moderno está libre de esta conexión. Las iglesias están ahora separadas de las estructuras políticas CONCEPTO BÁSICO DE SECULARIZACIÓN the change I want to define and trace is one which takes us from a society in which it was virtually impossible not to believe in God, to one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is one human possibility among others. (…)Belief in God is no longer axiomatic. There are alternati...