Table of Contents 

• • Preface
  • Introduction
• Part I: The Work of Reform
  • 1. The Bulwarks of Belief
  • 2. The Rise of the Disciplinary Society
  • 3. The Great Disembedding
  • 4. Modern Social Imaginaries
  • 5. The Spectre of Idealism
• Part II: The Turning Point
  • 6. Providential Deism
  • 7. The Impersonal Order
• Part III: The Nova Effect
  • 8. The Malaises of Modernity
  • 9. The Dark Abyss of Time
  • 10. The Expanding Universe of Unbelief
  • 11. Nineteenth-Century Trajectories
• Part IV: Narratives of Secularization
  • 12. The Age of Mobilization
  • 13. The Age of Authenticity
  • 14. Religion Today
• Part V: Conditions of Belief
  • 15. The Immanent Frame
  • 16. Cross Pressures
  • 17. Dilemmas 1
  • 18. Dilemmas 2
  • 19. Unquiet Frontiers of Modernity
  • 20. Conversions
  • Epilogue: The Many Stories
  • Notes
  • Index