and symbols may survive and even flourish, but their influence in the culture at large is progressively diminished. As Wells puts it, “It is axiomatic that secularism strips life of the divine, but it is important to see that it does so by relocating the divine in that part of life which is private.”70 The subtlety of this definition is crucial if we are to answer revisionist critics who assure us, as Nielsen does, that “secularity seems to be declining in influence.”71 One recent book has uncovered