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= Sociology of Religion (Article) =

Secularization and Civil Religion

 * Secularism is the general movement away from religiosity and spiritual belief towards a rational, scientific, orientation, a trend observed in Muslim and Christian industrialized nations alike. In the United States of America, many politicians, court systems, schools, and businesses embrace secularism
 * They claimed that there would be a separation of religion from the institutions such as the state, economy, and family.
 * Peter Berger, an American sociologist, considers secularization is the result of a larger sociostructural crisis in religion is caused by pluralism. Pluralism is the presence and engaged coexistence of numerous distinct groups in one society.
 * The United States is both highly religious and pluralistic, standing out among other industrialized and wealthy nations in this regard.

Rationalism
Rationalism is the epistemological theory, the branch of philosophy that investigates the possibility, origins, nature, and extent of human knowledge

Families
In general religion is most often associated with families, since it is normally passed on from generation to generation. Depending on the type of religion in the family, normally it involves a different familial structure. For example, Catholics tend to have big families since they are pro-life, they go to mass every Sunday, and they most always send their kids through confirmation. In Jewish families, it is very important to be nurturing and kind, helping them to make a lasting impact on their community since they are in the minority culture in the world.