Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-851) and index.

The work of reform -- The bulwarks of belief -- The rise of the disc iplinary society -- The great disembedding -- Modern social imaginaries -- The spectre of idealism -- The turning point -- Providential deism -- The impersonal order -- The nova effect -- The malaises of modernity -- The dark abyss of time -- The expanding universe of unbelief -- Nin eteenth-century trajectories -- Narratives of secularization -- The age of mobilization -- The age of authenticity -- Religion today -- Condit ions of belief -- The immanent frame -- Cross pressures -- Dilemmas 1 - - Dilemmas 2 -- Unquiet frontiers of modernity -- Conversions.