The Post-Secular City: The New Secularization Debate [Hardcover]

The Post-Secular Cityis the first attempt to systematically map and assess the recent debate about secularization.The Post-Secular Cityexamines the alleged shift from asecularto apost-seculardispensation from the perspective of the ongoing de-construction of the secularizationtheorem(as Hans Blumenberg called it). Accordingly, the new secularization debate is described as being polarized between thede-constructorsand themaintainersof the standard thesis of secularization. This is the assumption underlying an ambitious effort to map the field, which consists of a long introduction wheresecularizationis analyzed as a deeply problematic concept-of-process and of eight chapters in which several protagonists of the recent debate are discussed as crucial junctions of a multidisciplinary conversation.