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NOTES Chapter 1 1. Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City, foreword A. Momigliano and S. C. Humphreys (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980). A short list of some of the most important titles on Western secularism would include the following: Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, trans. Robert M. Wallace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983; orig. publ. 1966); the special issue of Daedalus (Summer 2003) dedicated to secularism; Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (New York: Scribner’s, 1971); James E. Cummins, Religion, Secularization and Political Thought: Thomas Hobbes to J. S. Mill (London and New York: Routledge, 1989); Lewis W. Beck, Six Secular Philosophers (London: Thoemmes Press, 1997; orig. publ. 1960); W. Warren Wagar, ed., The Secular Mind: The Transformation of Faith in Modern Europe: Essays Presented to Franklin L. Baumer (New York: Homes and Meier, 1982); Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1981); Owen Chadwick, The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975); Stephen Carter, The Culture of Disbelief (New York: Basic Books, 1993); Peter Berger, Facing Up to Modernity: Excursions in Society, Politics, and Religion (New York: Basic Books, 1977); A Far Glory: The Quest for Faith in the Age of Credulity (New York: Free Press, 1992); “The G-Word and the A-List: In a Social Setting, There’s One Subject Washington Avoids Religiously: God,” Washington Post, July 12, 1999, C1.The present work differs from most of the above outstanding studies, in that it searches for the origins of the secular problem in Christian antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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