Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Christopher Lynch, "Reason, Authority, and the People in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy."
Chapter 2: Christopher Nadon, "Paolo Sarpi and the Venetian Interdict."

English and Dutch

Chapter 3: Rafael Major, "The Dawn of Secularism in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice."
Chapter 4: Svetozar Minkov, "The Problem of Natural Piety: Bacon on the Prospects of the Secularization Project."
Chapter 5: Robert Faulkner, "Bacon’s New Atlantis: From Faith in God to Faith in Progress."
Chapter 6: Henry Clark, "Dutch Commercial Republicanism in the Story of Secularization: Pieter De la Court’s Political Maxims of the State of Holland."
Chapter 7: Nasser Behnegar, "Locke, Capitalism, and the Bible."
Chapter 8: Ryan Hanley, "Hume’s Critique and Defense of Religion."
Chapter 9: Andre Wakefield, "The Theological Roots of Secular Modernism.”

French

Chapter 10: Benjamin Storey, "Montaigne, Secularism, and the Enlightenment."
Chapter 11: Paul Rahe, "Blaise Pascal, Pierre Nicole, and the Origins of Liberal Sociology."
Chapter 12: Dean DiSpalatro, "Godfathers and Spiritual Warriors: The Political Philosophy ofPierre Bayle."
Chapter 13: Johnson Kent Wright, "Voltaire and the Lettres philosophiques."
Chapter 14: Andrea Radasanu, "Montesquieu and the Spirit of Secularism: Books 24 and 25 of The Spirit of the Laws."
Chapter 15: John Scott, "Between Religious Fanaticism and Philosophical Fanaticism:
Rousseau’s 'Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar.'"'
Chapter 16: Alice Behnegar, "Tocqueville’s Puzzling Secularism."

American

Chapter 17: Brian J. Glenn, "American Mutual Assistance Practices in the Age of the Enlightenment."
Chapter 18: Jeremy Bailey, "Nature and Nature’s God in Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia."
Chapter 19: George Thomas, "Secularism and the Logic of American Constitutionalism."
Chapter 20: Ralph Lerner,"The World through Ben's Bifocals."

German

Chapter 21: Friederike von Schwerin-High, "Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Religious Pluralism in Nathan the Wise and The Fragments Controversy."
Chapter 22: Allan Arkush, "Setting the Stage for Secularization: Theocracy and Liberalism in Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem."
Chapter 23: David Janssens, "Canine Conundrum: The Pantheism Controversy and the Crisis of Secularism."
Chapter 24: Jeffery L. High,"Friedrich Schiller, Secular Virtue, and'The Gods of Ancient Greece.'"
Chapter 25: Fred E. Bauman, "Aesthetic Education in Mozart’s Magic Flute."
Chapter 26: Susan Meld Shell, "Kant’s Secular Religion: Philosophical Theodicy and The Book of Job."
Chapter 27: Mark Blitz, "Hegel and Secularism."
Chapter 28: David Biale, "Freud’s Moses: The Enlightenment Bible of a Godless Jew."