James Bryant Reeves challenges traditional notions of secularization in the 18th century. The podcast explores the challenges of identifying atheism in the 17th and 18th centuries, Pope's connection between unbelief and bad belief, the dystopia of unbelief in poetry and novels, debates on the relationship between sympathy, benevolence, and God, the use of letters and satire in a novel, and the exploration of religious context and the role of hymns in forging communities in the 18th century.
