Varieties Of Secularism In A Secular Age

Author : Michael Warner,Jonathan VanAntwerpen,Craig J. Calhoun
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674048571

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Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age by Michael Warner,Jonathan VanAntwerpen,Craig J. Calhoun Pdf

“What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?” This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect. In Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, a prominent and varied group of scholars chart the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes and address wider questions of secularism and secularity. The distinguished contributors include Robert Bellah, José Casanova, Nilüfer Göle, William E. Connolly, Wendy Brown, Simon During, Colin Jager, Jon Butler, Jonathan Sheehan, Akeel Bilgrami, John Milbank, and Saba Mahmood. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age succeeds in conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book.

Author : Michael Warner,Jonathan VanAntwerpen,Craig J. Calhoun
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674072411

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Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age by Michael Warner,Jonathan VanAntwerpen,Craig J. Calhoun Pdf

ÒWhat does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?Ó This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect. In Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age, a prominent and varied group of scholars chart the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes and address wider questions of secularism and secularity. The distinguished contributors include Robert Bellah, JosŽ Casanova, NilŸfer Gšle, William E. Connolly, Wendy Brown, Simon During, Colin Jager, Jon Butler, Jonathan Sheehan, Akeel Bilgrami, John Milbank, and Saba Mahmood. Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age succeeds in conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book.

Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674986916

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A Secular Age by Charles Taylor Pdf

The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Author : Saba Mahmood
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691153285

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Religious Difference in a Secular Age by Saba Mahmood Pdf

How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minorities The plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious freedom, and the legal separation of private and public domains. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Egypt with Coptic Orthodox Christians and Bahais—religious minorities in a predominantly Muslim country—Saba Mahmood shows how modern secular governance has exacerbated religious tensions and inequalities rather than reduced them. Tracing the historical career of secular legal concepts in the colonial and postcolonial Middle East, she explores how contradictions at the very heart of political secularism have aggravated and amplified existing forms of Islamic hierarchy, bringing minority relations in Egypt to a new historical impasse. Through a close examination of Egyptian court cases and constitutional debates about minority rights, conflicts around family law, and controversies over freedom of expression, Mahmood invites us to reflect on the entwined histories of secularism in the Middle East and Europe. A provocative work of scholarship, Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges us to rethink the promise and limits of the secular ideal of religious equality.

Author : Mirjam Künkler,John Madeley,Shylashri Shankar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108417716

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A Secular Age Beyond the West by Mirjam Künkler,John Madeley,Shylashri Shankar Pdf

This book compares secularity in societies not shaped by Western Christianity, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Author : Florian Zemmin,Colin Jager,Guido Vanheeswijck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110387179

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Working with A Secular Age by Florian Zemmin,Colin Jager,Guido Vanheeswijck Pdf

Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age has been extensively discussed, criticized, and worked on. This volume, by contrast, explores ways of working with Taylor’s book, especially its potentials and limits for individual research projects. Due to its wide reception, it has initiated a truly interdisciplinary object of study; with essays drawn from various research fields, this volume fosters substantial conversation across disciplines.

Author : James K. A. Smith
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802867612

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How (Not) to Be Secular by James K. A. Smith Pdf

How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor's insightful study of the secular, making that very significant but daunting work accessible to a wide array of readers. Even more, though, Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular is a practical philosophical guidebook, a kind of how-to manual on how to live in our secular age. It ultimately offers us an adventure in self-understanding and maps out a way to get our bearings in today's secular culture, no matter who "we" are -- whether believers or skeptics, devout or doubting, self-assured or puzzled and confused. This is a book for any thinking person to chew on.

Author : Michael Rectenwald,Rochelle Almeida,George Levine
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614519317

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Global Secularisms in a Post-Secular Age by Michael Rectenwald,Rochelle Almeida,George Levine Pdf

Global Secularisms addresses the state of and prospects for secularism globally. Drawing from multiple fields, it brings together theoretical discussion and empirical case studies that illustrate "on-the-ground," extant secularisms as they interact with various religious, political, social, and economic contexts. Its point of departure is the fact that secularism is plural and that various secularisms have developed in various contexts and from various traditions around the world. Secularism takes on different social meanings and political valences wherever it is expressed. The essays collected here provide numerous points of contact between empirical case studies and theoretical reflection. This multiplicity informs and challenges the conceptual theorization of secularism as a universal doctrine. Analyses of different regions enrich our understanding of the meanings of secularism, providing comparative range to our notions of secularity. Theoretical treatments help to inform our understanding of secularism in context, enabling readers to discern what is at stake in the various regional expressions of secularity globally. While the bulk of the essays are case-based research, the current thinking of leading theorists and scholars is also included.

Author : Jocelyn Maclure,Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674062955

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Secularism and Freedom of Conscience by Jocelyn Maclure,Charles Taylor Pdf

Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and its two operative modes—separation of Church (or mosque or temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis religions. But more crucially, they make the powerful argument that in our ever more religiously diverse, politically interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only path to religious and philosophical freedom. Secularism and Freedom of Conscience grew out of a very real problem—Quebec’s need for guidelines to balance the equal respect due to all citizens with the right to religious freedom. But the authors go further, rethinking secularism in light of other critical issues of our time. The relationship between religious beliefs and deeply-held secular convictions, the scope of the free exercise of religion, and the place of religion in the public sphere are aspects of the larger challenge Maclure and Taylor address: how to manage moral and religious diversity in a free society. Secularism, they show, is essential to any liberal democracy in which citizens adhere to a plurality of conceptions of what gives meaning and direction to human life. The working model the authors construct in this nuanced account is capacious enough to accommodate difference and freedom of conscience, while holding out hope for a world in which diversity no longer divides us.

Author : K. H. (Ina) ter Avest
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783039212774

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There is a Crack in Everything—Education and Religion in a Secular Age by K. H. (Ina) ter Avest Pdf

There are two constants in academic and theological discourse throughout history, they are the debate around secularization and the dialogue concerning the intersection of religion and education. Each age has had its debate about modernizing forces that drive concerns of impending secularization. In this publication this theme is approached from perspectives of teachers, of students, of policy makers and situated in a politico-historical context. Aware of the fact that in today’s plural societies one sacred canopy is non-existent anymore, cracks of the sacred canopy/canopies are described, as well as ‘the light that gets in’, the possible and challenging ways out are roughly sketched.

Author : John Cogley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0269670327

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Religion in a Secular Age by John Cogley Pdf

Author : José Mapril,Ruy Blanes,Emerson Giumbelli,Erin K. Wilson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319437262

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Secularisms in a Postsecular Age? by José Mapril,Ruy Blanes,Emerson Giumbelli,Erin K. Wilson Pdf

This volume ethnographically explores the relation between secularities and religious subjectivities.As a consequence of the demise of secularization theory, we live in an interesting intellectual moment where the so-called ‘post-secular’ coexists with the secular, which in turn has become pluralized and historicized. This cohabitation of the secular and post-secular is revealed mainly through political dialectical processes that overshadow the subjective and inter-subjective dimensions of secularity, making it difficult to pinpoint concrete sites, agents, and objects of expression. Drawing on cases from South America, Africa, and Europe, contributors apply key insights from religious studies debates on the genealogies and formations of both religion and secularism. They explore the spaces, persons, and places in which these categories emerge and mutually constitute one another.

Author : John Lardas Modern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226533254

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Secularism in Antebellum America by John Lardas Modern Pdf

Ghosts. Railroads. Sing Sing. Sex machines. These are just a few of the phenomena that appear in John Lardas Modern’s pioneering account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. This book uncovers surprising connections between secular ideology and the rise of technologies that opened up new ways of being religious. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York’s penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, Modern challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion today. Modern frames his study around the dread, wonder, paranoia, and manic confidence of being haunted, arguing that experiences and explanations of enchantment fueled secularism’s emergence. The awareness of spectral energies coincided with attempts to tame the unruly fruits of secularism—in the cultivation of a spiritual self among Unitarians, for instance, or in John Murray Spear’s erotic longings for a perpetual motion machine. Combining rigorous theoretical inquiry with beguiling historical arcana, Modern unsettles long-held views of religion and the methods of narrating its past.

Author : Ian Albert Leask
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion and culture
ISBN : IND:30000127026783

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The Taylor Effect by Ian Albert Leask Pdf

The Taylor Effect presents an original and diverse collection of essays addressing Charles Taylorâ (TM)s magisterial A Secular Age. Ranging from close and critical readings of Taylorâ (TM)s formulations and suppositions; to comparative studies of Taylor and various â ~interlocutorsâ (TM); to applied approaches utilizing Taylorâ (TM)s concepts; to explorations launched from a Taylorian foundation; the 13 chapters comprise a multifaceted exploration of Taylorâ (TM)s multifaceted achievement. Given the vast, synoptic sweep of Taylorâ (TM)s magnum opus, the contributors represent a suitably diverse range of interests, backgrounds and expertiseâ "members of departments of philosophy, literature, philosophical theology, systematic theology, moral theology, education, and political science, whose interests stretch from Plato to Girard, phronesis to pedagogy, Deism to dogmatics, medical ethics to aesthetics... Accordingly, The Taylor Effect is not only one of the first major responses to A Secular Age: the astonishing breadth as well as the quality of contributions will ensure that it remains a central reference point in any future discussion of Taylorâ (TM)s work.

Author : L. Cady,E. Hurd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230106703

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Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age by L. Cady,E. Hurd Pdf

The history and politics of secularism and the public role of religion in France, India, Turkey, and the United States. It interprets the varieties of secularism as a series of evolving and contested processes of defining and remaking religion, rather than a static solution to the challenges posed by religious and political difference.