Is secularization a necessary consequence of the rise of the modern world, or of civilisational progress in general?

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: 2,1, University College Cork, language: English, abstract: In the following essay I want to start with some statistics and graphics, just to have an overview about the topic and about what religious groups and people we are talking, when discussing the problem of secularization. The next step will be, that I try to define differe...