The history of religious practices like prayer can provide a key to understanding changing early modern mentalities. As early modern men and women argued about prayer from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, they revealed a new kind of European religious consciousness that would eventually give birth to secularism.

Flynn Cratty is Associate Director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University.

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