A short history of secularism - Smith, Graeme (I.B. Tauris, 2008)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Western secularism -- Science: the new technology -- Secularism and social history -- The reinvention of Christianity by ordinary people -- Churchgoing and pilgrimage in the middle ages -- Contemporary and medieval Christian life -- The enlightenment effect --- The last Puritan age -- The ethics society
What does it mean to call Western society 'secular'? What is secularism? The author offers a radical reappraisal of the notion of secularism and its history, beginning with the Greeks and proceeding to modernity and the contemporary period