Here is your short essay on the connection between state and secularization !
Secularism was an ideological goal of the new political philosophy and movement after the French Revolution. Still later in 1851. George Jacoab Holyoake coined the term secularism. He declared it as the only rational basis of political and social organization. Holyoake questioning the religious basis of civil society, recommended secularism as state ideology which promotes human welfare by material means and makes the service of others its duty.
Secularism as a progressive ideology was a necessary qualification for a liberal, democratic state of the post French Revolution. These connotations are applied even to a modem democratic state now. A modem state by its definition and libel and democratic policy makes no distinction between groups, classes etc. within society, irrespective of religious affiliation.
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The political philosophy on the part of the state required that the state shall not impose any religion on people and did not prohibit practice of religion by a section of the people. Thus, with secularism as an ideological goal, the proponents of this ideology consciously denounce religious orthodoxy as the basis for social organization and advocate civil values.
The development of secularism as an ideology was partly an outcome of the process of secularization in Europe. And in many modern states it has been adopted as a state policy, without really going through a historical process which was in evidence in Europe at the time of the emergence of the phenomenon of secularism.