The Ironies of Modern Spirituality

Ihave been waiting for this book by Dominic Green since 2015, when an essay of his, "Soul Survivor," appeared in an issue of the Hedgehog Review devoted to the theme of "re-enchantment." The author's note informed us that "his next book, The Religious Revolution, is forthcoming with Farrar, Strauss [sic] & Giroux." And so it was, though not as soon as we had reason to expect. But it was worth the wait. Brilliant, witty, enjoyably idiosyncratic, it is not a work of "history" as conventionally understood (and here "conventional" is purely descriptive, not pejorative); it is "literary" as much as it is "historical," rather like the unclassifiable books of the late Roberto Calasso, though Green's style is distinctively his own.