This process of explosive diversification has a secularizing effect on religion, which is felt as displacement. Once the lava settled, society’s structural shape had changed beyond recognition. Religion no longer presides over much of society as it did in the past nor participates in all of life as the Christian faith is required to do. As a result, Christian institutions and ideas are displaced from the center of modern society and relegated to the margins. At one stroke, discipleship, in the sense