Willem Styfhals is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Stéphane Symons is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.

"What makes the book so valuable pedagogically is the clarity and scope of its synthetic gestures about the dense questions congealing around the topic of secularization. It offers a pronouncement of central significance, emerging from some of the most important contemporary voices in these fields. The scholarship is internationally informed and engaged, even as it feels vibrant, immediate, and agenda setting." — Ward Blanton, University of Kent, Canterbury

• IntroductionWillem Styfhals & Stephane Symons Part I. Genealogy and Secularization: Conceptual Perspectives Genealogy Trouble: Secularization and the Leveling of TheoryKirk Wetters"The God of Myth Is Not Dead"—Modernity and Its Cryptotheologies: A Jewish PerspectiveAgata Bielik-RobsonPart II. Philosophy and the Secular: An Alternative History of the German Secularization Debate The "Distance to Revelation" and the Difference between Divine and Worldly Order: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Secularization as Historical DevelopmentSigrid WeigelTheology and Politics: Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger before, in, and after the Davos DebateJeffrey Andrew BarashIs Progress a Category of Consolation? Kant, Blumenberg, and the Politics of the ModernsMichael FoesselHannah Arendt, Secularization Theory, and the Politics of SecularismSamuel MoynPart III. Jacob Taubes: Secularization, Heresy, and DemocracySecularization and the Symbols of Democracy: Jacob Taubes's Critique of Carl SchmittMartin TremlOn the Symbolic Order of Modern DemocracyJacob TaubesIn Paul's Mask: Jacob Taubes Reads Walter BenjaminSigrid WeigelPart IV. Jan Assmann: a Late Voice in the German Secularization DebateSecularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann's MonotheismDaniel Steinmetz-JenkinsMonotheismJan AssmannContributorsIndex

Willem Styfhals is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Stéphane Symons is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.

"What makes the book so valuable pedagogically is the clarity and scope of its synthetic gestures about the dense questions congealing around the topic of secularization. It offers a pronouncement of central significance, emerging from some of the most important contemporary voices in these fields. The scholarship is internationally informed and engaged, even as it feels vibrant, immediate, and agenda setting." — Ward Blanton, University of Kent, Canterbury

• IntroductionWillem Styfhals & Stephane Symons Part I. Genealogy and Secularization: Conceptual Perspectives Genealogy Trouble: Secularization and the Leveling of TheoryKirk Wetters"The God of Myth Is Not Dead"—Modernity and Its Cryptotheologies: A Jewish PerspectiveAgata Bielik-RobsonPart II. Philosophy and the Secular: An Alternative History of the German Secularization Debate The "Distance to Revelation" and the Difference between Divine and Worldly Order: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Secularization as Historical DevelopmentSigrid WeigelTheology and Politics: Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger before, in, and after the Davos DebateJeffrey Andrew BarashIs Progress a Category of Consolation? Kant, Blumenberg, and the Politics of the ModernsMichael FoesselHannah Arendt, Secularization Theory, and the Politics of SecularismSamuel MoynPart III. Jacob Taubes: Secularization, Heresy, and DemocracySecularization and the Symbols of Democracy: Jacob Taubes's Critique of Carl SchmittMartin TremlOn the Symbolic Order of Modern DemocracyJacob TaubesIn Paul's Mask: Jacob Taubes Reads Walter BenjaminSigrid WeigelPart IV. Jan Assmann: a Late Voice in the German Secularization DebateSecularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann's MonotheismDaniel Steinmetz-JenkinsMonotheismJan AssmannContributorsIndex

Willem Styfhals is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven. Stéphane Symons is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven.

"What makes the book so valuable pedagogically is the clarity and scope of its synthetic gestures about the dense questions congealing around the topic of secularization. It offers a pronouncement of central significance, emerging from some of the most important contemporary voices in these fields. The scholarship is internationally informed and engaged, even as it feels vibrant, immediate, and agenda setting." — Ward Blanton, University of Kent, Canterbury

• IntroductionWillem Styfhals & Stephane Symons Part I. Genealogy and Secularization: Conceptual Perspectives Genealogy Trouble: Secularization and the Leveling of TheoryKirk Wetters"The God of Myth Is Not Dead"—Modernity and Its Cryptotheologies: A Jewish PerspectiveAgata Bielik-RobsonPart II. Philosophy and the Secular: An Alternative History of the German Secularization Debate The "Distance to Revelation" and the Difference between Divine and Worldly Order: Walter Benjamin's Critique of Secularization as Historical DevelopmentSigrid WeigelTheology and Politics: Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger before, in, and after the Davos DebateJeffrey Andrew BarashIs Progress a Category of Consolation? Kant, Blumenberg, and the Politics of the ModernsMichael FoesselHannah Arendt, Secularization Theory, and the Politics of SecularismSamuel MoynPart III. Jacob Taubes: Secularization, Heresy, and DemocracySecularization and the Symbols of Democracy: Jacob Taubes's Critique of Carl SchmittMartin TremlOn the Symbolic Order of Modern DemocracyJacob TaubesIn Paul's Mask: Jacob Taubes Reads Walter BenjaminSigrid WeigelPart IV. Jan Assmann: a Late Voice in the German Secularization DebateSecularization and Theologization: Introduction to Jan Assmann's MonotheismDaniel Steinmetz-JenkinsMonotheismJan AssmannContributorsIndex