The Sources of Secularism

Provides a wide historical as well as cross-cultural perspective on recent debates about secularism
Offers a re-conception of the sources and impact of the secularization process
Establishes new connections between historical events and figures that shaped the modern ways of thinking about religion

Autorentext

Anna Tomaszewska is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Hasse Hämäläinen is a postdoctoral researcher in the project The Enlightenment Ideas of Freedom of Thought and Conscience, and Contemporary Secularism at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Inhalt

1. Editor's Introduction.- 2. Towards a Political Theory of Secularism.- 3. The Idea of Immanence in Charles Taylor's Philosophy of Religion.- 4. The Rationality of Secularization.-5. The Secularism of Spinoza and his Circle.- 6. Thomas Hobbes and the Secularization of Authority.- 7. The History and Philosophy of English Freethinking.- 8. Sources of Knowledge, Sources of Doubts: The Emergence of Modern Religious Studies and The French Enlightenment.- 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.- 10. Kant on Freedom of Thought.- 11. The Divine Immanence, Kant's Religious Rationalism, and Spinoza.- 12. Talking to Ourselves: An Investigation into the Christian Ethics Inherent in Secularism.- 13. Rethinking Secularism as A Political Principle in the Middle East: From Negative to Positive Understanding and Perception of Secularism. <p