Enlightenment and Secularism: Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

Table of ContentsChapter 1: Christopher Lynch, "Reason, Authority, and the People in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy."Chapter 2: Christopher Nadon, "Paolo Sarpi and the Venetian Interdict."English and DutchChapter 3: Rafael Major, "The Dawn of Secularism in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice."Chapter 4: Svetozar Minkov, "The Problem of Natural Piety: Bacon on the Prospects of the Secularization Project."Chapter 5: Robert Faulkner, "Bacon's New Atlantis: From Faith in God to Faith in Progress."Chapter 6: Henry Clark, "Dutch Commercial Republicanism in the Story of Secularization: Pieter De la Court's Political Maxims of the State of Holland."Chapter 7: Nasser Behnegar, "Locke, Capitalism, and the Bible."Chapter 8: Ryan Hanley, "Hume's Critique and Defense of Religion."Chapter 9: Andre Wakefield, "The Theological Roots of Secular Modernism."FrenchChapter 10: Benjamin Storey, "Montaigne, Secularism, and the Enlightenment."Chapter 11: Paul Rahe, "Blaise Pascal, Pierre Nicole, and the Origins of Liberal Sociology."Chapter 12: Dean DiSpalatro, "Godfathers and Spiritual Warriors: The Political Philosophy of	Pierre Bayle."Chapter 13: Johnson Kent Wright, "Voltaire and the Lettres philosophiques."Chapter 14: Andrea Radasanu, "Montesquieu and the Spirit of Secularism: Books 24 and 25 of 	The Spirit of the Laws."Chapter 15: John Scott, "Between Religious Fanaticism and Philosophical Fanaticism:Rousseau's 'Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar.'"'Chapter 16: Alice Behnegar, "Tocqueville's Puzzling Secularism."AmericanChapter 17: Brian J. Glenn, "American Mutual Assistance Practices in the Age of the 	Enlightenment."Chapter 18: Jeremy Bailey, "Nature and Nature's God in Jefferson's Notes on the State of 	Virginia."Chapter 19: George Thomas, "Secularism and the Logic of American Constitutionalism."Chapter 20: Ralph Lerner, "The World through Ben's Bifocals." GermanChapter 21: Friederike von Schwerin-High, "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's Religious Pluralism in 	Nathan the Wise and The Fragments Controversy."Chapter 22: Allan Arkush, "Setting the Stage for Secularization: Theocracy and Liberalism in 	Moses Mendelssohn's Jerusalem."Chapter 23: David Janssens, "Canine Conundrum: The Pantheism Controversy and the Crisis of 	Secularism."Chapter 24: Jeffery L. High, "Friedrich Schiller, Secular Virtue, and 'The Gods of Ancient Greece.'"Chapter 25: Fred E. Bauman, "Aesthetic Education in Mozart's Magic Flute."Chapter 26: Susan Meld Shell, "Kant's Secular Religion: Philosophical Theodicy and The Book of Job."Chapter 27: Mark Blitz, "Hegel and Secularism."Chapter 28: David Biale, "Freud's Moses: The Enlightenment Bible of a Godless Jew."