For those who were intellectually captivated – as was I – by the recently broadcast seven part CBC Ideas series “The Myth of the Secular” and found yourself too engrossed in listening to jot down all the fascinating books being discussed, I’ve prepared what I hope will be a helpful list of those very works (which, almost needless to state, we think are all well worth reading).
Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jonathan Vanantwerpen, eds., Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press, 2011)
William Connolly, Why I Am Not a Secularist (University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
Fred Dallmayr, Integral Pluralism: Beyond Culture Wars (University of Kentucky Press, 2010)
Paul Kahn, Political Theology: Four New Chapters (Columbia University Press, 2011)
Saba Mahmood, The Politics of Piety (Princeton University Press, 2011)
David Martin, On Secularization; Towards a Revised General Theory (Ashgate Publishing, 2005)
John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Wiley, 2006)
Malise Ruthven, Fundamentalism (Oxford University Press, 2005)
Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (University of Chicago Press, 1934, 2005)
Charles Taylor, A Secular Age, (Harvard University Press)
Mark Taylor, After God (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
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