books.google.co.uk - For much of the twentieth century, New Zealand historians, like most Western scholars, largely took it for granted that as modernity waxed religion would wane. Secularization-the fading into insignificance of religion-would distinguish the modern era from previous ages. Until the 1980s, only a handful...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Christianity_Modernity_And_Culture.html?id=h4NSPO-RM9sC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareChristianity, Modernity And Culture