Non-assessed essay question: “Although secularism emerged in response to the political problems of Western Christian society in early modernity – beginning with its devastating wars of religion – it is applicable to non-Christian societies everywhere that have become modern.” Discuss.

Non-assessed essay question: “Although secularism emerged in response to the political problems of Western Christian society in early modernity – beginning with its devastating wars of religion – it is applicable to non-Christian societies everywhere that have become modern.” Discuss.

Introduction –  The Secularization Debate and a Paradigm Shift            The most important sociological thinkers of the 19th century, those who gave birth to the discipline of sociology, men such as Auguste Comte, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Herbert Spencer,...