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3. Formations of the Secular'' by Talal Asad – Asad begins is work by asking what an anthropology of the secular might look like. Ultimately, Asad concludes that the secular is not necessarily a byproduct of the decline of religion, and nor is it a product of more scientific and rational thinking of the modern age.
4. '[https://www.amazon.com/Cambridge-Companion-Atheism-Companions-Philosophy/dp/0521603676/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1509167514&sr=1-1&keywords=%27The+Cambridge+Companion+to+Atheism%27%27+by+Michael+Martin ''The Cambridge Companion to Atheism'' by Michael Martin] – This work is a collection of eighteen essays by the world’s leading scholars on atheism and irreligion. It deals with atheistic beliefs from antiquity to the modern age. The essays contained within present varying perspectives of irreligious beliefs – from philosophical to societal.
5. ''Religion and the Decline of Magic'' by Keith Thomas – This book primarily deals with the epic battle between religion and magic from the medieval period until around the seventeenth century, and it does so in an endlessly fascinating way. When did magic, miracles, and superstition become concepts that could be differentiated between, and why did some become sinful and others acceptable? When did fortunetellers and “cunning men” become witches and demons?
