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RESACRALIZATION — [Noun] The return of religious meaning to areas of public life. From re- ("again") + sacralization ("the act of making sacred"). Unlike "secularization" (the retreat of faith from shared spaces) or "desacralization" (the stripping of holiness from what was once revered), resacralization is the rekindling of devotion—a quiet rebellion against the barrenness of the purely rational. It is the incense curling through a repurposed cathedral, the pilgrim’s bare feet on ancient stones newly cleared of market stalls, or the murmured prayer in a language thought forgotten, rising like a tide to reclaim what was lost. The sacred does not vanish; it waits.
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- The return of religious meaning to areas of public life.