from Part V - Classical Modernity: Social and Political Currents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 September 2021
Works by Stephen Bullivant (2013) and Michael Ruse (2015) have made clear that defining ‘atheism’ can be a daunting task, given that it implies grappling with what authors understand by religion. In this sense, the following pages are in debt to the insights provided by Talal Asad (1993), Brent Nongbri (2013), and Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1962). Moreover, in most of the western world the process of secularization, understood as the historical course by which the civic, the economic, the political, and the social realms are separated from any religious subjugation or dependency, was largely absent by the end of the eighteenth century, when this examination starts.
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