ABSTRACT
The term “postsecular” has been used in a variety of ways since it appeared in the title of Philip Blond’s Post-Secular Philosophy (1998). At least four are important to distinguish: (i) a “Radical Orthodox” theological orientation such as Blond’s, pioneered at Cambridge in the 1990s; (ii) a political designation, as in Jürgen Habermas’s “Notes on a Post-Secular Society,” describing Europe as no longer homogenously secular and grappling to integrate religious citizens in the public sphere; (iii) a literary-historical designation, originating from John McClure’s Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (2007), identifying post-WWII literature more occupied with faith than the modernist fiction that preceded it; and (iv), the one that concerns us here, a descriptor of humanities and social science scholarship in what has been called the “religious turn.”
