* Religion becomes a matter of individual choice rather than an observed social obligation.A major issue in the study of secularization is the extent to which certain trends such as decreased attendance at places of worship indicate a decrease in religiosity or simply a privatization of religious belief, where religious beliefs no longer play a dominant role in public life or in other aspects of decision making.

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Jack David Eller (2010) outlined Peter Glasner's 10 different institutional, normative, or cognitive versions

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