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A secular age
Abstract
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
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“They are products of a mixed consciousness, a hybrid combination of belief and unbelief in what Charles Taylor calls a 'secular age' in which every reflexive modern person, theist or atheist, has to consider his or her position in the light of multiple possibilities (Taylor 2007).”
From Secular Belief, Religious Belonging in China (2014) · cites this paper as Taylor 2007
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“Focused on building moral community within concrete humanity, Chinese religions are more easily poised to embrace the multiple beliefs within the 'immanent frame' (Taylor 2007:534-593) of a secular age-including theoretical atheism jostling side by side with the possibility that there may be some reality behind the traditional gods after all-but they remain always focused on the prag”
From Secular Belief, Religious Belonging in China (2014) · cites this paper as Taylor 2007
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- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 2008-03-01
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 07
- Pages
- 45-3741-45-3741
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W4237188499
- Cited by
- 0
- References
- 0
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Choice Reviews Online (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Religion and Society Interactions
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Historical Thought
- Keywords
- secular age, secularism, religion and modernity
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