Secularism The Hidden Origins of Disbelief

Introduction 1. Issues in Secularism and Culture 1.1 Secularism, Atheism and Scientism 1.2 Secularism and Contemporary Culture 1.3 Philosophy and Secularism 1.4 The Role of Language 1.5 Psychology, the Brain and Secularism 1.6 The Shibboleths of Secularism 2. Articulating Spiritual Difference 2.1 The History of the Spiritual Life 2.2 Four Spiritual Polarities 2.3 The Varieties of Spiritual Impulse 2.4 Pathologies and Correctives in the Spiritual Life 2.5 The Problem of 'God' 2.6 The Bhakti / Jnani Distinction 3. Returning to the Roots 3.1 The Twentieth Century 3.2 The Enlightenment 3.3 The Spiritual Wounds of the West 4. Bhakti and Jnani in Western Development 4.1 Piety and the West 4.2 Jnani, the East, and Hellenic Influence 4.3 A Radical History of Western Development 5. The Undefended Western 'God' 5.1 The Enlightenment Reconsidered 5.2 Deism 5.3 Failure of the Western Jnani Religion Conclusions References Bibliography Index