The Secular-Religious Divide: Kant’s Legacy

I want to explore to philosophic origins of the modern conception of secularism. I plan to focus on the work of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel. They were not secularists in the contemporary sense of the word --where the secular is sharply contrasted with the religious, but each of them interpreted religion in a manner that was compatible with an independent understanding of the secular. By exploring their thought, I want to expose the philosophic grounding for contemporary understandings of the secular and the religious.