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useful guides, as is Kucich (2001).}} But it cannot be undone.

For Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud onwards,“disenchanting” the world spelt the end of religion—the “death” of God—a process thought to be inevitable. The journey begins with Martin Luther in 1517, or earlier in Renaissance humanism. The rise of modern science, symbolized by ''On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres'' by Copernicus in 1543, is crucial: science advanced as it was able to provide mathematical explanations for phenomena attributed to God ormagic. That reality is the heart of disenchantment. Skepticism, a rationalistic response to theWars of Religion, was also significant. No wonder Popkin says, “Luther had indeed opened a Pandora’s box."{{sfn|Lewis|2004|p=15}}

=== Notes ===

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* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1948 |title=The Naked and the Dead |location=New York |publisher=Rinehart and Co. |ref=harv }}

* {{cite book |last=Popkin |first=Richard H. |date=2003 |title=The History of Skepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |ref=harv }}

* {{cite journal |last=Sipiora |first=Phillip |title=Norman Mailer: Metaphysician at Work |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=2.1 |date=2008 |pages=502-506 |ref=harv }}

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 useful guides, as is Kucich (2001).}} But it cannot be undone.
+For Feuerbach, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud onwards,“disenchanting” the world spelt the end of religion—the “death” of God—a process thought to be inevitable. The journey begins with Martin Luther in 1517, or earlier in Renaissance humanism. The rise of modern science, symbolized by ''On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres'' by Copernicus in 1543, is crucial: science advanced as it was able to provide mathematical explanations for phenomena attributed to God ormagic. That reality is the heart of disenchantment. Skepticism, a rationalistic response to theWars of Religion, was also significant. No wonder Popkin says, “Luther had indeed opened a Pandora’s box."{{sfn|Lewis|2004|p=15}}
 === Notes ===
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 * {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Norman |date=1948 |title=The Naked and the Dead |location=New York |publisher=Rinehart and Co. |ref=harv }}
+* {{cite book |last=Popkin |first=Richard H. |date=2003 |title=The History of Skepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |ref=harv }}
 * {{cite journal |last=Sipiora |first=Phillip |title=Norman Mailer: Metaphysician at Work |journal=The Mailer Review |volume=2.1 |date=2008 |pages=502-506 |ref=harv }}