Panel: THE POST-SECULAR TURN IN THE HUMANITIES - TRANSDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES



501.2 - ENCHANTMENT AND POST-SECULARITY

AUTHORS:
Morgan D. (Duke University ~ Durham, North Carolina ~ United States of America)
Text:
This paper will consider the persistence of a variety of forms of enchantment in late modernity and examine the considerable scholarly literature that has arisen since the 1990s exploring enchantment as a concept and cultural range of practices. Principal questions to be taken up include: How is enchantment to be understood in the light of post-secularity? What role has enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment played in relation to formal religions? How has enchantment been defined and theorized over the last three decades? And how has material cultures shaped the experience and the interpretation of enchantment?