Tag: Secular

  • Peter Harrison’s Challenge to the Secular Mythos

    Peter Harrison, a distinguished historian of science, religion, and ideas, has profoundly shaped contemporary scholarship on the interwoven histories of these domains. His acclaimed works—‘Religion’ and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (1990), The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science (1998), The Fall of Man and the Foundations

  • The Afterlife of Coetzee’s Secular Commedia

    Nobel Prize-winning J.M. Coetzee’s new novel, The Pole, is an uneasy secularization of Dante’s love for Beatrice, his beatific muse. If Christopher Beha is correct and “the novelist . . . is a person for whom secularism presents a problem,” the disgrace and dis-ease Coetzee captures so gracefully put him