@article {2687,
	title = {Disenchantment revisited: Formations of the {\textquoteleft}secular{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}religious{\textquoteright} in the technological discourse of modernity},
	journal = {Social Compass},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {This article problematizes sociologist Max Weber{\textquoteright}s famed notion of {\textquoteleft}disenchantment{\textquoteright} in order to explore the ways in which {\textquoteleft}technology{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}religion{\textquoteright} operate in the discourse of {\textquoteleft}secular modernity{\textquoteright}. It suggests that disenchantment is not simply epistemological, that is, synonymous with rationalization and intellectualization, but also ontological, and a description of the overhauling of what Bruno Latour calls the {\textquoteleft}modernist settlement{\textquoteright}. It proceeds in following manner: (1) it presents an {\textquoteleft}interpretive genealogy{\textquoteright} of technological rationality in discourses about modernity, demonstrating an internal conflict, especially in how {\textquoteleft}religion{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}the secular,{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}technology{\textquoteright} are conceptualized. It posits that the lack of consistency in the invocation of these terms is a symptom of a deeper unresolved ontological (or, onto-cosmological) tension. (2) After establishing this ontological aporia, the article proceeds to offer a rereading of Weber{\textquoteright}s original concept of disenchantment. (3) Finally, the author teases out some of the implications of reading disenchantment ontologically for the understanding of religion and technology.},
	url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0037768614560960},
	author = {Han, Sam}
}
