Secularização como um conceito de pensamento social global: proposta de análise genealógica da tese da secularização

In this research we focus on the analysis and interpretation of the conditions that supported the provenience and emergence of the secularization thesis. To this end, we apply a genealogical methodology that allows us to examine its historical vicissitudes, as well as its contingencies, discontinuities, and contradictions in sociological and pre-sociological discourse. We propose a diachronic and systematic review of the range of meanings of secularization. We begin with its Greco- Roman senses and then deepen what we call the pivotal moment for establishing a systematic study of religious phenomena in modern societies - the late 19th-century and early 20th-century. The study of its provenience and emergence compels us to question secularization as the natural order of modern societies.