of wholeness it once provided, to a disenchanted modernity. Ernest Gellner argued that, although disenchantment was the inevitable product of modernity, many people just could not stand a disenchanted world, and therefore opted for various "re-enchantment creeds", such as psychoanalysis, Marxism, Wittgensteinianism, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology. A noticeable feature of these re-enchantment creeds is that they all tried to make themselves compatible with naturalism: i.e., they did not refer to supernatural forces. Disenchantment as myth The American historian of religion Jason Josephson-Storm has challenged mainstream sociological and historical interpretations of both the concept of disenchantment and of reenchantment, labeling the former as a "myth". Josephson-Storm argues that there has not been a decline in belief in magic or mysticism in Western Europe or the United States, even after adjusting for religious belief, education, and class. See also Desacralization of knowledge Iron cage New Age Resacralization of knowledge The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Romanticism Tripartite classification of authority Urbanization References Citations Works cited Further reading Max Weber Sociology of religion