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Like the shaded area belonging equally to two overlapping circles in a Venn diagram, love may be experienced as both essentially religious and as a moment of secular transcendence. Faust exploits this convergence in his famous response to Gretchen. Honigmann both reverses and expands upon this "Faustian accommodation," revealing how love within a modern, secular society might stand in for - and also with - traditional religious affiliation., Competing Interests: Die Autorinnen/Autoren geben an, dass kein Interessenkonflikt besteht., (Thieme. All rights reserved.)