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?
Biography
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).
A scholarly road map designed to introduce newcomers to the many and varied contours of the debate surrounding why, how, and when western civilization turned from an “age of religion” towards an equally encompassing “age of secularity.”
S. C. Williams
