A secular age / Charles Taylor.
2007
BL2747.8 .T39 2007
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Title
A secular age / Charles Taylor.
Author
ISBN
9780674026766 (alk. paper)
0674026764 (alk. paper)
9780674026766 (alk. paper)
0674026764 (alk. paper)
0674026764 (alk. paper)
9780674026766 (alk. paper)
0674026764 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
x, 874 pages ; 24 cm
x, 874 p. ; 24 cm.
x, 874 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
BL2747.8 .T39 2007
Alternate Call Number
08.42
11.05
11.05
Review
"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."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [779]-851) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-851) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-851) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Part I: The work of reform. The bulwarks of belief ; The rise of the disciplinary society ; The great disembedding ; Modern social imaginaries ; The spectre of idealism
Part II: The turning point. Providential deism ; The impersonal order
Part III: The nova effect. The malaises of modernity ; The dark abyss of time ; The expanding universe of unbelief ; Nineteenth-century trajectories
Part IV: Narratives of secularization. The age of mobilization ; The age of authenticity ; Religion today
Part V: Conditions of belief. The immanent frame ; Cross pressures ; Dilemmas 1 ; Dilemmas 2 ; Unquiet frontiers of modernity ; Conversions
Epilogue: The many stories.
The work of reform
The bulwarks of belief
The rise of the disciplinary society
The great disembedding
Modern social imaginaries
The spectre of idealism
The turning point
Providential deism
The impersonal order
The nova effect
The malaises of modernity
The dark abyss of time
The expanding universe of unbelief
Nineteenth-century trajectories
Narratives of secularization
The age of mobilization
The age of authenticity
Religion today
Conditions of belief
The immanent frame
Cross pressures
Dilemmas 1
Dilemmas 2
Unquiet frontiers of modernity
Conversions.
Part II: The turning point. Providential deism ; The impersonal order
Part III: The nova effect. The malaises of modernity ; The dark abyss of time ; The expanding universe of unbelief ; Nineteenth-century trajectories
Part IV: Narratives of secularization. The age of mobilization ; The age of authenticity ; Religion today
Part V: Conditions of belief. The immanent frame ; Cross pressures ; Dilemmas 1 ; Dilemmas 2 ; Unquiet frontiers of modernity ; Conversions
Epilogue: The many stories.
The work of reform
The bulwarks of belief
The rise of the disciplinary society
The great disembedding
Modern social imaginaries
The spectre of idealism
The turning point
Providential deism
The impersonal order
The nova effect
The malaises of modernity
The dark abyss of time
The expanding universe of unbelief
Nineteenth-century trajectories
Narratives of secularization
The age of mobilization
The age of authenticity
Religion today
Conditions of belief
The immanent frame
Cross pressures
Dilemmas 1
Dilemmas 2
Unquiet frontiers of modernity
Conversions.
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