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Title Working with A secular age : interdisciplinary perspectives on Charles Taylor's master narrative / edited by Florian Zemmin, Colin Jager, and Guido Vanheeswijck ; with an afterword by Charles Taylor
Published Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 431 pages)
Series Religion and its others : studies in religion, nonreligion, and secularity ; Volume 3
Religion and its others ; v. 3.
Contents The potential of Taylor's story for various disciplines -- The story's normative implications -- The Story's subtler languages -- Islamic Stories
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 26, 2016)
Subject Taylor, Charles, 1931- Secular age.
SUBJECT Secular age (Taylor, Charles) fast
Subject Secularism.
Religion and culture.
RELIGION -- Agnosticism.
Religion and culture
Secularism
Form Electronic book
Author Zemmin, Florian, 1981- editor.
Jager, Colin, editor.
Vanheeswijck, Guido M. M., 1955- editor.
LC no. 2016010786
ISBN 9783110375510
3110375516
9783110387179
3110387174