The Sources of Secularism

Anna Tomaszewska · Hasse Hämäläinen
Editors

The Sources
of Secularism
Enlightenment and Beyond
Editors
Anna Tomaszewska Hasse Hämäläinen
Institute of Philosophy Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University Kraków, Poland
Kraków, Poland

ISBN 978-3-319-65393-8 ISBN 978-3-319-65394-5  (eBook)

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-65394-5

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 Contents

1 Editors’ Introduction 1
Hasse Hämäläinen and Anna Tomaszewska

Part I  The Theory of Secularism

2 Towards a Political Theory of Secularism 21

Jocelyn Maclure

3 The Idea of Immanence in Charles Taylor’s Philosophy

of Religion 35
Justyna Miklaszewska

4 The Rationality of Secularization 53

Ulrich Steinvorth

Part II The Sources of Secularism: Rethinking Religion

in the Early Modern Era

5 The Secularism of Spinoza and His Circle 73

Henri Krop

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6 Thomas Hobbes and the Secularization of Authority 101

Edgar Straehle

7 The History and Philosophy of English Freethinking 121

Elad Carmel

Part III  The Sources of Secularism: Enlightenment

8 Sources of Knowledge, Sources of Doubts: The

Emergence of Modern Religious Studies and the
French Enlightenment 141
Aleksandra Porada

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 169
Jeffrey D. Burson

10 Kant on Freedom of Thought 189

Alice Pinheiro Walla

11 The Divine Immanence, Kant’s Religious Rationalism,

and Spinoza 207
Anna Tomaszewska

Part IV  The Practice of Secularism

12 Talking to Ourselves: An Investigation into the

Christian Ethics Inherent in Secularism 229
Graeme Smith
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13 Rethinking Secularism as a Political Principle in the

Middle East: From Negative to Positive Understanding
and Perception of Secularism 245
Edgar Şar and Alphan Telek

Erratum to: The Sources of Secularism E1

Anna Tomaszewska and Hasse Hämäläinen

Bibliography 295

Index 311
 Contributors

Jeffrey D. Burson  Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, USA

Elad Carmel  The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Hasse Hämäläinen Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland
Henri Krop  Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands
Jocelyn Maclure  Laval University, Québec City, Canada
Justyna Miklaszewska Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland
Alice Pinheiro Walla  Department of Philosophy, University of
Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Aleksandra Porada  SWPS University of Social Sciences and
Humanities, Wrocław, Poland
Edgar Şar  Department of Political Science and International Relations,
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Graeme Smith Department of Theology, Philosophy and Religious
Studies, University of Chichester, Chichester, UK
Ulrich Steinvorth  University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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Edgar Straehle Museum of History of Barcelona (MUHBA) and

ADHUC, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Alphan Telek  Sciences Po University, Paris, France
Anna Tomaszewska Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University,
Kraków, Poland
 List of Tables

Table 13.1 Comparative periodization for the transition of the

perception of secularism from negative to positive in Iran,
Turkey and Tunisia 264

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