Working with A Secular Age : : Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor's Master Narrative / / ed. by Florian Zemmin, Guido Vanheeswijck, Colin Jager.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Religion and Its Others : Studies in Religion, Nonreligion and Secularity , 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 431 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Preface --
Table of Contents --
Introduction --
I. The Potential of Taylor’s Story for Various Disciplines --
Beyond the Paradigm of Secularization? --
The Temptation of Religious Nostalgia: Protestant Readings of A Secular Age --
An Order of Mutual Benefit: A Secular Age and the Cognitive Science of Religion --
II. The Story’s Normative Implications --
The Ambiguity of “Post-Secular” and “Post-Metaphysical” Stories: On the Place of Religion and Deep Commitments in a Secular Society --
Liberal Pluralism in a Secular Age --
Does Religion need Rehabilitation? Charles Taylor and the Critique of Secularism --
Other Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine: The Limited Imaginings of a Secular Age --
The Quest for the West in an Era of Globalization: Some Remarks on the Hidden Meaning of Charles Taylor’s Master Narrative --
III. The Story’s Subtler Languages --
Language within Language: Reform and Literature in A Secular Age --
Musical Works as ‘Higher Times’: Concert Culture in a Secular Age --
Secular Moods: Exploring Temporality and Affection with A Secular Age --
Charles Taylor, Nietzsche and Theology in A Secular Age --
“Every Meaning Will have its Homecoming Festival:” A Secular Age and the Senses of Modern Spirituality --
IV. Islamic Stories --
A Secular Age and Islamic Modernism --
Religion as Transcendence in Modern Islam: Tracking “Religious Matters” into a Secular(izing) Age --
Reconsidering Transcendence/Immanence. Modernity’s Modes of Narration in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Literary Tradition --
Afterword --
An Annotated Bibliography of Responses to A Secular Age --
Index
Summary: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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9783110375510
9783110762501
9783110701005
9783110485103
9783110485394
ISSN:2330-6262 ;
DOI:10.1515/9783110375510
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Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Florian Zemmin, Guido Vanheeswijck, Colin Jager.