Renaissance, Reformation, and Religion in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Renaissance, Reformation, and Religion in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
This chapter presents an account of the development of the notion of religion. It seeks to answer the question: if religions have not simply “just been there” since antiquity, how did this particular way of conceiving of the world, the manner of carving the world into “religious” and “not-religious,” became dominant? It also provides results of some disparate strands of scholarship that have been converging toward to a useful understanding of the emergence of the religious/secular divide.
Keywords: religions, religious, non-religious, secular, notion of religion, conceiving of the world
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