The rise in worldly thinking, particularly as seen in the rise of science, technology, and rational thought, and a simultaneous decline in the influence of religion, can be described as:
Secularization is the historical process in which eligion´s cultural significance declines, and society transforms from having a strong bond with religious ideas and institutions to aproach nonreligious values and secular institutions. Modernization and rationalization question religious organizations´ authority in social life and the government.
