THE sacred has not ebbed, it seems. Even when the miraculous disappears and God's mention is found only in shrill spaces. The world is indeed going through what Weber called Entzauberung, the loss of the magical from life. Modernity appears. But doesn't this secular modernity also have limits?

France: here, where Islam is the second largest religion, Muslim girls wear the veil to school. They appear to be tending what is sacral. Perhaps the a