Scenarios about 'secularization'
The historical process by which religious institutions, practices, and consciousness lose social and cultural significance in society. Secularization emerged prominently during the Enlightenment and accelerated through industrialization, scientific advancement, and modernization in Western societies. In alternate history scenarios, different patterns of secularization can fundamentally alter power structures, cultural development, and geopolitical alignments by changing the relationship between religious and political authorities.
What If Religious Education Remained Dominant?
Exploring the alternate timeline where secular education never displaced religious institutions as the primary providers of learning, fundamentally altering the intellectual and cultural development of modern society.