Select an aspect of our social life or culture that once held religious significance, but has now become secularized. Using this secularized piece of culture, and through your research, create a list of social factors that contributed to the religious elements diminishing over time. Compose a short paper on how these social factors evolved over time to result in the "script" we have inherited of the piece of once-religious-now-secular culture we understand to exist today.

Select an aspect of our social life or culture that once held religious significance, but has now become secularized. Using this secularized piece of culture, and through your research, create a list of social factors that contributed to the religious elements diminishing over time. Compose a short paper on how these social factors evolved over time to result in the “script” we have inherited of the piece of once-religious-now-secular culture we understand to exist today.