The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences (University of Chicago Press, 2017)

Nature was no longer a source of wonder but a force to be mastered, a system to be figured out. At its root, disenchantment describes the fact that everything in modern life, from our minds to the rotation of the planets, can be reduced to the causal mechanism of physical laws.

These proper sciences or pseudosciences presume a disenchantment that allows the true self to be independent of what it feels.

For the most part, these cosmologies recognized powers and goals higher than those of mortal humans and the physical world. The disenchantment of the world may have led to a more scientific view of reality, but it also promoted the hubris of a human-centric – mediated by a nation-centric – view of the world

Because now that the whole world has been disenchanted and we have been encased in a flattened “nature,” I expect it will be forms of reenchanted Christianity that will actually have a future.