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Deus absconditus and disenchantment
Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is an inspired yet rigorously argued Wagnerian effort to analyze the distinctive anxieties of modern intellectual and social life, by one of the most important and...
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Understanding disenchantment
Jane Bennett’s sympathetic yet critical commentary on my essay “What is Enchantment?” (published in the volume Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age) describes the notion of disenchantment that I...
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Secularism: Its content and context
The following is excerpted from a longer SSRC Working Paper by Akeel Bilgrami, available for download here (PDF).—ed. 1. I begin with three fundamental features of the idea of ‘secularism.’ I will want...
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Secularism: Some concepts and distinctions
I am very grateful to the many commentators on my essay “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” for their instructive and challenging responses and I am glad of this chance, in what follows, to try and...
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The possibilities of history
Colin Jager projects the virtues of his own reading of me onto my essay when he describes it as possessed of “care, patience, and generosity.” I feel distinctly ungenerous, therefore, in focusing (as,...
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Genealogy and plurality
Simon During’s essay begins with a taxonomy that is harmlessly at odds with my own classification. He uses the term “secularization” as overarching and he calls what I describe as secularism or (S),...
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A different notion of fraternity
In his interesting and engaging essay, Uday Mehta addresses, with some genuine feeling of qualm, a large, concluding theme in my paper: the specific and non-standard form of humanism that I had...
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Gandhian fraternity
This post continues and extends Bilgrami’s earlier reply to Uday Mehta.—ed. In expounding his misgiving about the humanism I proposed, Uday Mehta seeks—I think with some strain—to find an...
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