and state); the universities that generate and disseminate knowledge; and the mass media, which do the same for the images by which we understand ourselves. Although often not conscious of it, the persons within the society obtain “a sense of what is right and wrong, what is important and what is not” from these systems.27 The relationship that Wells has described between modernization and modernity is also found between secularization and secularism. In the final analysis, Wells concludes that secularization
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