Ian Alexander Cuthbertson is a professor in the Humanities Department at Dawson College in Montréal, Québec. Ian is broadly interested in exploring how the category “religion” is deployed to legitimize certain beliefs, practices, and institutions while delegitimizing others.

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• Contents Acknowledgments vi Introduction: Why Enchantment? 1 1. The Disenchantment Thesis 10 2.  Disenchantment as Modern Myth 32 3. Enchantment and Exclusion 50 4. Rational Re-enchantment 71 5.  Spiritual Re-enchantment 90 6. Modern Enchantment 109 Conclusion: The Future of Enchantment 128 Further Reading 139 References 141 Index 152

Ian Alexander Cuthbertson is a professor in the Humanities Department at Dawson College in Montréal, Québec. Ian is broadly interested in exploring how the category “religion” is deployed to legitimize certain beliefs, practices, and institutions while delegitimizing others.

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• Contents Acknowledgments vi Introduction: Why Enchantment? 1 1. The Disenchantment Thesis 10 2.  Disenchantment as Modern Myth 32 3. Enchantment and Exclusion 50 4. Rational Re-enchantment 71 5.  Spiritual Re-enchantment 90 6. Modern Enchantment 109 Conclusion: The Future of Enchantment 128 Further Reading 139 References 141 Index 152

Ian Alexander Cuthbertson is a professor in the Humanities Department at Dawson College in Montréal, Québec. Ian is broadly interested in exploring how the category “religion” is deployed to legitimize certain beliefs, practices, and institutions while delegitimizing others.

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• Contents Acknowledgments vi Introduction: Why Enchantment? 1 1. The Disenchantment Thesis 10 2.  Disenchantment as Modern Myth 32 3. Enchantment and Exclusion 50 4. Rational Re-enchantment 71 5.  Spiritual Re-enchantment 90 6. Modern Enchantment 109 Conclusion: The Future of Enchantment 128 Further Reading 139 References 141 Index 152