A secular age / Charles Taylor

By: Taylor, Charles [author]
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007Description: x, 874 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674026766Subject(s): Secularism | Religion and cultureDDC classification: 211.6
Contents:
Contents Preface Introduction Part I: The Work of Reform 1. The Bulwarks of Belief 2. The Rise of the Disciplinary Society 3. The Great Disembedding 4. Modern Social Imaginaries 5. The Spectre of Idealism Part II: The Turning Point 6. Providential Deism 7. The Impersonal Order Part III: The Nova Effect 8. The Malaises of Modernity 9. The Dark Abyss of Time 10. The Expanding Universe of Unbelief 11. Nineteenth-Century Trajectories Part IV: Narratives of Secularization 12. The Age of Mobilization 13. The Age of Authenticity 14. Religion Today Part V: Conditions of Belief 15. The Immanent Frame 16. Cross Pressures 17. Dilemmas 1 18. Dilemmas 2 19. Unquiet Frontiers of Modernity 20. Conversions Epilogue: The Many Stories Notes Index
Summary: "What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others." "Taylor offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created." "What this means for the world - including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence - is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Work of Reform
1. The Bulwarks of Belief
2. The Rise of the Disciplinary Society
3. The Great Disembedding
4. Modern Social Imaginaries
5. The Spectre of Idealism
Part II: The Turning Point
6. Providential Deism
7. The Impersonal Order
Part III: The Nova Effect
8. The Malaises of Modernity
9. The Dark Abyss of Time
10. The Expanding Universe of Unbelief
11. Nineteenth-Century Trajectories
Part IV: Narratives of Secularization
12. The Age of Mobilization
13. The Age of Authenticity
14. Religion Today
Part V: Conditions of Belief
15. The Immanent Frame
16. Cross Pressures
17. Dilemmas 1
18. Dilemmas 2
19. Unquiet Frontiers of Modernity
20. Conversions
Epilogue: The Many Stories
Notes
Index

"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others." "Taylor offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created." "What this means for the world - including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence - is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless

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