What could you use instead?

It's sad when words that over time acquired specific and useful meanings lose them again.   Here's a quote from the right-wing Weekly Standard:

You see, the problem in Europe isn't just that their tax rates are so high. It's lots of other things, too. To pick just three other causes: (1) European culture has elevated cohabitation to a nearly equal status with traditional marriage. (2) Religiosity has been replaced by secularism among native Europeans... 

I am certain that Weekly Standard deplores this trend -- but when did "religiosity" lose its negative connotation of "hypocritical display of religious behavior"?  My definition; Oxford Universal has "Affected or excessive religiousness" and dates to 1799 -- but only as a second definition, after "religiousness, religious feeling."   I wouldn't have thought "religiousness" was a word.  I don't want the word to lose the meaning I give it; it is so sweet to see it in contexts like that one.  "America needs more religiosity."