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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. RELIGIOUS PLURALISM AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SECULAR; 1 Past Belief: The Fall and Rise of Ecclesiastical History in Early Modern Europe; 2 Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism; 3 Doubt and Unbelief in the Early Modern Era: Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and the Spanish Tradition; 4 Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? "Out of the Body, Who Are We?" Augustine, the Care of the Dead, and a Clash of Representations; 5 In the Church and at Home: Approaches to Saints in Colonial Mexico; PART II. SECULARISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS

6 An Ordinary Soviet Death: Scientific Atheism, Socialist Rituals, and Life's Final Question7 True Believers in the Modern Middle East; 8 The Reformation Era and the Secularization of Knowledge; 9 Contesting Secularization: The Idea of a Normative Deficit of Modernity after Max Weber; 10 Religious Minorities and the Anxieties of an Islamic Identity in Pakistan; Afterword: Belief in Science? On the Neuroscience of Religion; Notes; List of Contributors; Index

This book offers a more nuanced understanding of the origins of secularist thought, demonstrating how Reformed Christianity and the Enlightenment were not the sole vessels of a worldview based on rationalism and individual autonomy.

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