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Narratives of Secularization (Paperback)
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It is increasingly clear that histories of secularization are not
simply dispassionate descriptions of the decline of religious
belief and practice in the West. Rather, such narratives often seek
to celebrate secularization, promote some version of it, lament it,
or otherwise oppose it in favour of a programme of desecularization
or resacralization. The aim of this book is to identify some of the
major genres of the history of secularization and to explore their
historical contexts, normative commitments, and tendential
purposes. The contributors to the volume offer different
perspectives on these questions, not least because a number of them
are themselves participants in the cultural-political programs
described above. The primary purpose of this book, however, is the
identification of such programs rather than their promotion.
Overall, the collection seeks to bring analytical clarity to
ongoing debates about secularization and help explain the
co-existence of apparently conflicting stories about the origins of
Western modernity. This book was originally published as a special
issue of the Intellectual History Review journal.
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