According to specialists of religion, in the last century, Europe may be seen as the only cultural area where secularization asserts fully in modern societies. Erasure of Churches from the public arena, the separation between religion and politics and the fall of religious practices are some aspects of the secularization process in Europe while everywhere else the contrary is observed.
However, religiosity is far from having totally disappeared. The most recent observation and analysis speaks even about a return of religiosity within debates on national and cultural identity, on ethics and modernity.