The Sources of Secularism

1. Editors’ Introduction
Hasse Hämäläinen, Anna Tomaszewska

Part I. The Theory of Secularism

2. Towards a Political Theory of Secularism
Jocelyn Maclure

3. The Idea of Immanence in Charles Taylor’s Philosophy of Religion
Justyna Miklaszewska

4. The Rationality of Secularization
Ulrich Steinvorth

Part II. The Sources of Secularism: Rethinking Religion in the Early Modern Era

5. The Secularism of Spinoza and His Circle
Henri Krop

6. Thomas Hobbes and the Secularization of Authority
Edgar Straehle

7. The History and Philosophy of English Freethinking
Elad Carmel

Part III. The Sources of Secularism: Enlightenment

8. Sources of Knowledge, Sources of Doubts: The Emergence of Modern Religious Studies and the French Enlightenment
Aleksandra Porada

9. The Interlacing of Secular Implications and Sacred Discourse in the French Enlightenment: Toleration and Freedom of Expression in the Works of Abbé Claude Yvon
Jeffrey D. Burson

10. Kant on Freedom of Thought
Alice Pinheiro Walla

11. The Divine Immanence, Kant’s Religious Rationalism, and Spinoza
Anna Tomaszewska

Part IV. The Practice of Secularism

12. Talking to Ourselves: An Investigation into the Christian Ethics Inherent in Secularism
Graeme Smith

13. Rethinking Secularism as a Political Principle in the Middle East: From Negative to Positive Understanding and Perception of Secularism
Edgar Şar, Alphan Telek

14. Erratum to: The Sources of Secularism
Anna Tomaszewska, Hasse Hämäläinen

Keywords: Religious Studies, Secularism, Ancient History, Ethics