Secularisations and Their Debates

Part I. Secularizations

1. Introduction: Secularization and Its Discontents
Matthew Sharpe, Dylan Nickelson

2. Disenchantments of Secularism: The West and India
Purushottama Bilimoria

3. Locke, Secularism and the Justice of the Secular Solution: Towards a Self-Reflective Transcending of Secular-Self Understanding
Philip Andrew Quadrio

Part II. Church and State

4. Marx and the Christian Logic of the Secular State
Roland Boer

5. Spirit Matters: Life After Secularism and Religion?
Johann Rossouw

Part III. Radical Orthodoxy

6. Counter-Secularism: Parsing the Theological Cure for Our Modern Malady
Dylan Nickelson

7. ‘In the Beginning Was … the Story’? On Secularization, Narrative, and Nominalisms
Matthew Sharpe

Part IV. New Atheism and the Post-Secular Theoretical Turn

8. Enjoy Your Enlightenment! New Atheism, Fanaticism and the Pleasures of (Other People’s) Illusions
Bryan Cooke

9. Against Fundamentalism: The Silence of the Divine in the Work of Karen Armstrong
Petra Brown

10. Secularism Stuck in the End-Times: From Alexandre Kojève to the Recent Messianic Turn
Rory Jeffs

Part V. The Secular Age or Post-Secularism

11. Charles Taylor’s Search for Transcendence: Mystery, Suffering, Violence
John Rundell

12. Towards Post-Secular Enlightenment
Wayne Hudson, Wayne Hudson

Keywords: Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Social Sciences, general, Modern Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Anthropology, History of Philosophy