The Re-Enchantment of the World is an interdisciplinary volume that challenges the long-prevailing view of modernity as -disenchanted.- There is of course something to the widespread idea, so memorably put into words by Max Weber, that modernity is characterized by the -progressive disenchantment of the world.- Yet what is less often recognized is the fact that a powerful counter-tendency runs alongside this one, an overwhelming urge to fill the vacuum left by departed convictions, and to do so without invoking superseded belief systems. In fact, modernity produces an array of...