The Sources of Secularism: Enlightenment and Beyond (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

1. Editor's Introduction Part 1. The Theory of Secularism 2. Towards a Political Theory of Secularism 3. The Idea of Immanence in Charles Taylor's Philosophy of Religion 4. The Rationality of Secularization Part 2. The Sources of Secularism: Rethinking Religion in Early Modernity 5. The Secularism of Spinoza and his Circle 6. Thomas Hobbes and the Secularization of Authority 7. The History and Philosophy of English Freethinking Part 3. The Sources of Secularism: Enlightenment 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 Abbe Claude Yvon 10. Kant on Freedom of Thought 11. The Divine Immanence, Kant's Religious R ationalism, and Spinoza Part 4. The Practice of Secularism 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.