desacralize

“In a way, we desacralized French literature by making it more accessible to everyone,” Mr. Santaki said.

After all, part of a good Roman daddy's responsibilities included his priestly duties, which in this desacralized age would probably involve praying to the oft-invoked golf gods.

Lovecraft desacralized cosmic horror, reinterpreting it through the lens of modern scientific theory and removing its Victorian moral assumptions.