This open access book draws on conceptual resources ranging from medieval scholasticism to
postmodern theory to propose a new understanding of secular time and its mediation in
nineteenth-century technological networks. Untethering the concept of secularity from questions
of 'religion' and 'belief' it offers an innovative rethinking of the history of secularisation
that will appeal to students scholars and everyone interested in secularity Victorian
culture the history of technology and the temporalities of modernity.
