Robert A. Yelle is Professor for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies and Chair of the Interfaculty Program in Religious Studies at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is Editor of the American Academy of Religion book series Religion, Culture, and History, and is the author of Sovereignty and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion (2019), Semiotics of Religion (Bloomsbury 2013), The Language of Disenchantment (2013), and Explaining Mantras (2003).

Lorenz Trein is Academic Staff Member and Assistant to the Chair for the Theory and Method of Religious Studies at the Interfaculty Program Study of Religion at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is author of Begriffener Islam (2015) and he is working on a monograph that explores narratives of disenchantment and secularization through a historical and theoretical contextualization of the work of Karl Löwith.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Dialectics of Disenchantment: The Devaluation of the Objective World and the Revaluation of Subjective Religiosity
Hans Kippenberg
Max Weber and the Rationalization of Magic
Jason A. Josephson-Storm
Science as a Commodity: Disenchantment and Conspicuous Consumption
Egil Asprem

Multiple Times of Disenchantment and Secularization
Lorenz Trein
The Disenchanted Enchantments of the Modern Imagination and "Fictionalism"
Michael Saler
Narratives of Disenchantment, Narratives of Secularization: Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of the Illiberal Secular
Jonathan Israel
"An Age of Miracles": Disenchantment as a Secularized Theological Narrative
Robert A. Yelle
Counter-Narratives to Secularization: Merits and Limits of Genealogy Critique
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
List of Contributors
Index