Narratives of Secularization

ISBN-13: 9781138563568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 176 str.

Peter Harrison

Opis

This book identifies the major genres of the history of secularization in the West, and explores their historical contexts, normative commitments, and tendential purposes, bringing analytical clarity to ongoing debates about secularization. It was originally published as a special issue of the Intellectual History Review journal.

Spis treści

Introduction: Narratives of secularization  1. Secularisation: process, program, and historiography  2. The one or the many? Narrating and evaluating Western secularization  3. Science and secularization  4. A heavenly poise: radical religion and the making of the Enlightenment  5. Narratives of de-secularization in international relations  6. The History of Political Thought as secular genealogy: the case of liberty in early modern England  7. The politics of disenchantment: Marcel Gauchet and the French struggle with secularization  8. Is absolute secularity conceivable?

O autorze

Peter Harrison is an Australian Laureate Fellow and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. He is author of over 100 articles and book chapters, and his six books include, most recently, The Territories of Science and Religion (2015).