Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Religious Pluralism and the Origins of the Secular
6. 1. Past Belief 13
7. 2. Jacob Sasportas and Jewish Messianism 41
8. 3. Doubt and Unbelief in the Early Modern Era 67
9. 4. Exeuntes de corpore qui sumus? “Out of the Body, Who Are We?” 85
10. 5. In the Church and at Home 106
11. Part II. Secularism and Its Discontents
12. 6. An Ordinary Soviet Death 127
13. 7. True Believers in the Modern Middle East 150
14. 8. The Reformation Era and the Secularization of Knowledge 163
15. 9. Contesting Secularization 184
16. 10. Religious Minorities and the Anxieties of an Islamic Identity in Pakistan 202
17. Afterword. Belief in Science? On the Neuroscience of Religion 235
18. Notes 243
19. List of Contributors 309
20. Index 313