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Mark Somos, Secularisation and the Leiden Circle (Leiden, Boston: Brill 2011), 544 pp. ISBN: 978-9004209558.

Mark Somos, Secularisation and the Leiden Circle (Leiden, Boston: Brill 2011), 544 pp. ISBN:... Secularisation is a phenomenon usually identified with secularism and mostly connected to the centuries following the Enlightenment. Only rarely have scholars studied secularisation as a process distinct from secularism, as a program that, although not necessarily motivated by anti-Christian or anti-religious positions, finally resulted in the rise of new worldviews more and more detached from Christianity or from religion as such. Mark Somos, in his recent study, traces back secularisation to a small circle of Leiden scholars blossoming in the first decades of the seventeenth century and coming to an abrupt end with the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) and the counter-remonstrant repression in its aftermath. As these scholars were directly influenced by some of the most important sixteenth-century French politiques and as they in turn influenced English secularising circles of the later seventeenth century, Somos suggests that his model of secularisation should be understood as a ‘relay race from one isolated pocket of transitory toleration and intellectual experimentation to the next’ (59) and his book as the presentation of ‘one of the few intellectual workshops where today’s secular values were developed’ (143). His aims are twofold. On the one hand, he intends to contribute to a better understanding http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grotiana Brill

Mark Somos, Secularisation and the Leiden Circle (Leiden, Boston: Brill 2011), 544 pp. ISBN: 978-9004209558.

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Grotiana , Volume 33 (1): 155 – Jan 1, 2012
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© 2012 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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0167-3831
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1876-0759
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10.1163/18760759-03300008
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Secularisation is a phenomenon usually identified with secularism and mostly connected to the centuries following the Enlightenment. Only rarely have scholars studied secularisation as a process distinct from secularism, as a program that, although not necessarily motivated by anti-Christian or anti-religious positions, finally resulted in the rise of new worldviews more and more detached from Christianity or from religion as such. Mark Somos, in his recent study, traces back secularisation to a small circle of Leiden scholars blossoming in the first decades of the seventeenth century and coming to an abrupt end with the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) and the counter-remonstrant repression in its aftermath. As these scholars were directly influenced by some of the most important sixteenth-century French politiques and as they in turn influenced English secularising circles of the later seventeenth century, Somos suggests that his model of secularisation should be understood as a ‘relay race from one isolated pocket of transitory toleration and intellectual experimentation to the next’ (59) and his book as the presentation of ‘one of the few intellectual workshops where today’s secular values were developed’ (143). His aims are twofold. On the one hand, he intends to contribute to a better understanding

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