Are we living in a 'post-secular age', and can phenomenology help us better understand the discontents of secularism and the supposed 'return of religion'? The contributions within this volume employ phenomenology to furnish deeper reflection upon the roles religion plays-beyond a primarily individualist conception-in our social orders and imaginaries. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

Introduction - Phenomenology and the Post-secular Turn: Reconsidering the 'Return of the Religious' 1. The Role of the Moral Emotions in Our Social and Political Practices 2. Deep Secularism, Faith, and Spirit 3. Personally Speaking . . . Kierkegaardian Postmodernism and the Messiness of Religious Existence 4. How to Overcome the World: Henry, Heidegger, and the Post-Secular 5. Philosophical Reflections on the Shaping of Identity in Fundamentalist Religious Communities 6. Murdering Truth: 'Postsecular' Perspectives on Theology and Violence 7. On Seizing the Source: Toward a Phenomenology of Religious Violence 8. From Mystery to Laughter to Trembling Generosity: Agono-Pluralistic Ethics in Connolly v. Levinas (and the Possibilities for Atheist-Theist Respect) Afterword - On Secularism and its Discontents: Reconsidering the 'Return of the Religious'

Michael Staudigl teaches in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he currently directs two research grants on the phenomenology of religion and religious violence. His main research interests concern the many faces of violence and the capacities of philosophy and phenomenology to confront them.

Jason W. Alvis is a Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research concerns the intersections of phenomenology, philosophy of religion, and social theory.