I'm really getting a lot out of Martin Hägglund's This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, 2019). The critique of Max Weber's "disenchantment" thesis about secularism (pages 14-18) is especially stimulating.
“ . . . Weber fails to grasp the commitment to freedom that is the distinct historical achievement of modern secular life. . . .
the recognition that we are responsible for the form of our shared life is at the heart of the modern, secular commitment to democracy. "
