Modern disenchantment concentrated rather than abolished demons

Evidence

In modernity, “[t] he first effect of disenchantment was not to do away with demons,” but actually, to cause “the demons to get concentrated.” — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 350

Categorization

• XREF: Directly inverts the standard secularization narrative; echoes Weber’s disenchantment thesis but argues the opposite effect — demons don’t vanish, they reconcentrate. — connects to: Art preserves magic’s self-enclosed enclave even as it renounces magical influence; Cartesian mechanism evicted all spirits and occult qualities from nature — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology,…, 798; the MOC “The Violence That Builds: How Modern Order Is Forged, Not Broken, by Force”