Secular modernity expanded human responsibility to cover events agents were unaware of.

Evidence

The human as agent is now responsible—answerable—not only for acts he or she has performed (or refrained from performing). Responsibility is now held for events he or she was unaware of—or falsely conscious of. The domain in which acts of God (accidents) occur without human responsibility is increasingly restricted. Chance is now considered to be tamable. The world is disenchanted. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 941

Categorization

• DEFINE: Asad defines disenchantment as the collapse of the domain where events happen without human responsibility—a sharper formulation than Weber’s.
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that modernity assigns responsibility for acts one was falsely conscious of ties epistemology to ethics — disenchantment as expanded culpability rather than mere loss of mystery.