Summary of ¿Qué es la Secularización?

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This video discusses the process of secularization, which is the rationalization and desacralization of religious values and behavior in modern, secular societies. It begins with a discussion of the modern world and how the secularization process begins when religious values are left behind in the social realm. The video then goes on to discuss how secularization has played out in Mexico, specifically with the laws established by Benito Juárez and Elias Calles that have limited the role of religion in public life.

• 00:00:00 The video discusses secularization, which is a process of rationalization and desacralization of religious values and behavior in modern, secular societies. It begins with the modern world, when the world is rationalized and given a materialistic explanation. This process of secularization begins with the world in which the religious values are left behind in the social realm. There is a human right to education, in which the parents have the right to educate their children and grandchildren with their own convictions. This is something that cannot be denied to the parents, as they are the formers of the family. Mexican secularization begins with Benito Juárez, who establishes Mexico as an independent, secular state in 1855. The next year, in 1917, Elias Calles decides to make Juárez's reform law, which had been made by Benito Juárez, into a reality. This law closed all churches so that the church and parishioners would not have contact with one another. The parishioners were angry and began a Catholic revolution with thousands of people joining in. This conflict is illustrated by the contradiction that exists in Mexico between citizens who cannot profess any religious beliefs, but are required to do so in public schools, and citizens who are allowed