Robert A. Yelle is Professor for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies and Chair of the Interfaculty Program in Religious Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is Editor of the American Academy of Religion book series Religion, Culture, and History, and is the author of Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion (2019), Semiotics of Religion (Bloomsbury 2013), The Language of Disenchantment (2013), and Explaining Mantras (2003).Lorenz Trein is Academic Staff Member and Assistant to the Chair for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies at the Interfaculty Program Study of Religion at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is author of Begriffener Islam (2015) and he is working on a monograph that explores narratives of disenchantment and secularization through a historical and theoretical contextualization of the work of Karl Löwith.

This exceptionally coherent volume of essays brings together some of the most original voices in the contemporary secularization literature to debate the meaning and significance of Max Weber’s master metaphor of ‘disenchantment'.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDialectics of Disenchantment: The Devaluation of the Objective World and the Revaluation of Subjective ReligiosityHans KippenbergMax Weber and the Rationalization of MagicJason A. Josephson-StormScience as a Commodity: Disenchantment and Conspicuous Consumption Egil AspremMultiple Times of Disenchantment and SecularizationLorenz TreinThe Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and “Fictionalism”Michael SalerNarratives of Disenchantment, Narratives of Secularization: Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of the Illiberal SecularJonathan Israel“An Age of Miracles”: Disenchantment as a Secularized Theological NarrativeRobert A. YelleCounter-Narratives to Secularization: Merits and Limits of Genealogy CritiqueMonika Wohlrab-SahrList of ContributorsIndex

Robert A. Yelle is Professor for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies and Chair of the Interfaculty Program in Religious Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is Editor of the American Academy of Religion book series Religion, Culture, and History, and is the author of Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion (2019), Semiotics of Religion (Bloomsbury 2013), The Language of Disenchantment (2013), and Explaining Mantras (2003).Lorenz Trein is Academic Staff Member and Assistant to the Chair for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies at the Interfaculty Program Study of Religion at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is author of Begriffener Islam (2015) and he is working on a monograph that explores narratives of disenchantment and secularization through a historical and theoretical contextualization of the work of Karl Löwith.

This exceptionally coherent volume of essays brings together some of the most original voices in the contemporary secularization literature to debate the meaning and significance of Max Weber’s master metaphor of ‘disenchantment'.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDialectics of Disenchantment: The Devaluation of the Objective World and the Revaluation of Subjective ReligiosityHans KippenbergMax Weber and the Rationalization of MagicJason A. Josephson-StormScience as a Commodity: Disenchantment and Conspicuous Consumption Egil AspremMultiple Times of Disenchantment and SecularizationLorenz TreinThe Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and “Fictionalism”Michael SalerNarratives of Disenchantment, Narratives of Secularization: Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of the Illiberal SecularJonathan Israel“An Age of Miracles”: Disenchantment as a Secularized Theological NarrativeRobert A. YelleCounter-Narratives to Secularization: Merits and Limits of Genealogy CritiqueMonika Wohlrab-SahrList of ContributorsIndex

Robert A. Yelle is Professor for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies and Chair of the Interfaculty Program in Religious Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is Editor of the American Academy of Religion book series Religion, Culture, and History, and is the author of Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion (2019), Semiotics of Religion (Bloomsbury 2013), The Language of Disenchantment (2013), and Explaining Mantras (2003).Lorenz Trein is Academic Staff Member and Assistant to the Chair for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies at the Interfaculty Program Study of Religion at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is author of Begriffener Islam (2015) and he is working on a monograph that explores narratives of disenchantment and secularization through a historical and theoretical contextualization of the work of Karl Löwith.

This exceptionally coherent volume of essays brings together some of the most original voices in the contemporary secularization literature to debate the meaning and significance of Max Weber’s master metaphor of ‘disenchantment'.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDialectics of Disenchantment: The Devaluation of the Objective World and the Revaluation of Subjective ReligiosityHans KippenbergMax Weber and the Rationalization of MagicJason A. Josephson-StormScience as a Commodity: Disenchantment and Conspicuous Consumption Egil AspremMultiple Times of Disenchantment and SecularizationLorenz TreinThe Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and “Fictionalism”Michael SalerNarratives of Disenchantment, Narratives of Secularization: Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of the Illiberal SecularJonathan Israel“An Age of Miracles”: Disenchantment as a Secularized Theological NarrativeRobert A. YelleCounter-Narratives to Secularization: Merits and Limits of Genealogy CritiqueMonika Wohlrab-SahrList of ContributorsIndex