ABSTRACT
Secularisation is a concept susceptible to multiple interpretations and this has threatened its continued use as a basis of scientific analysis. The secularisation theory has been applied not only to Europe, but also to Africa and Asia. The Indian historian and diplomat K. M. Pannikar argued that religion would decline in Africa and Asia following the end of Western colonial rule. Religious traditions are coming into the public domain not only to defend themselves but to participate in defending the private and public boundaries between system and life world, legality and morality, individual and society, between family and society, civil society and state. The historical structural differentiation has been based on the formation of modern states, the growth of modern capitalism and the Early Modern scientific revolution, all of which influence the economic and political operations of the Zimbabwean state. Structural differentiation is premised on the Reformation, formation of modern states, growth of modern capitalism and Early Modern scientific revolution.
