Secularization, Social Order, and World History

Secularization, Social Order, and World History provides a new perspective on the nature of secularization. This book demonstrates that the concepts of ‘religion’ and the ‘secular’ that are assumed in traditional accounts of secularization are not universal human categories, but specifically modern and Western ideas. What if we told the story of secularization not from the perspective that secularization itself produced, but from a standpoint outside the modern West? This book draws on premodern