Chapter 1 Editors’ Introduction

Chapter 2 Towards a Political Theory of Secularism

Chapter 3 The Idea of Immanence in Charles Taylor’s Philosophy of Religion

Chapter 4 The Rationality of Secularization

Chapter 5 The Secularism of Spinoza and His Circle

Chapter 6 Thomas Hobbes and the Secularization of Authority

Chapter 7 The History and Philosophy of English Freethinking

Chapter 8 Sources of Knowledge, Sources of Doubts: The Emergence of Modern Religious Studies and the French Enlightenment

Chapter 9 The Interlacing of Secular Implications and Sacred Discourse in the French Enlightenment: Toleration and Freedom of Expression in the Works of Abbé Claude Yvon

Chapter 10 Kant on Freedom of Thought

Chapter 11 The Divine Immanence, Kant’s Religious Rationalism, and Spinoza

Chapter 12 Talking to Ourselves: An Investigation into the Christian Ethics Inherent in Secularism

Chapter 13 Rethinking Secularism as a Political Principle in the Middle East: From Negative to Positive Understanding and Perception of Secularism