Secularization

Ian Hunter argues that "secularization" as "transition from divine reverencing to rational autonomy" didn't happen...

In a debunking paper on "secularization" and the "secular," Ian Hunter argues that "nobody in...

The Peace of Westphalia (1648) has been marked as a turning point in European political...

Alastair Roberts's contribution to Our Secular Age, a collection of essays on Charles Taylor's A...

Few studies of the Reformation, writes Alexandra Walsham (The Reformation of the Landscape), “have considered...

Patrick Deneen (Democratic Faith, xiv) tells the story of the desacralization of the Cathedral of...

“Western history is not, John Milbank argues, an evolutionary progress away from religion and toward...

In his history of popular culture in early modern Europe, Peter Burke traces what he...

Theology often lays claim to scientific status, Weber observes, but in doing so does something...

Charles Taylor's account of our Secular Age has many virtues. (The following relies on Jamie...

Max Weber begins his lecture on “Science as a Vocation” by noting the “meaningless” of...

Anthony Carroll summarizes his Protestant Modernity in a 2009 article in the Archives of European...

Anthony Carroll summarizes his Protestant Modernity in a 2009 article in the Archives of European...

In their editorial introduction to Globalizing the Sacred, Manual Vasquez and Marie Marquardt explain the limitations...

“Denominational pluralism, on the American plan,” wrote Will Herberg, “means thoroughgoing secularization” (36).By “secularization,” Herberg...

Andrew Walls (The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History) argues that Europe's encounter with non-Western peoples...