Table of contents

1. Contents
2. Contributors
3. List of Tables
4. Chapter 1 Editors’ Introduction
5. Part I The Theory of Secularism
6. Chapter 2 Towards a Political Theory of Secularism
7. Chapter 3 The Idea of Immanence in Charles Taylor’s Philosophy of Religion
8. Chapter 4 The Rationality of Secularization
9. Part II The Sources of Secularism: Rethinking Religion in the Early Modern Era
10. Chapter 5 The Secularism of Spinoza and His Circle
11. Chapter 6 Thomas Hobbes and the Secularization of Authority
12. Chapter 7 The History and Philosophy of English Freethinking
13. Part III The Sources of Secularism: Enlightenment
14. Chapter 8 Sources of Knowledge, Sources of Doubts: The Emergence of Modern Religious Studies and the French Enlightenment
15. Chapter 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
16. Chapter 10 Kant on Freedom of Thought
17. Chapter 11 The Divine Immanence, Kant’s Religious Rationalism, and Spinoza
18. Part IV The Practice of Secularism
19. Chapter 12 Talking to Ourselves: An Investigation into the Christian Ethics Inherent in Secularism
20. Chapter 13 Rethinking Secularism as a Political Principle in the Middle East: From Negative to Positive Understanding and Perception of Secularism
21. Chapter 14 Erratum to: The Sources of Secularism
22. Bibliography
23. Index