Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor's Master Narrative

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Working with A Secular Age

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor's Master Narrative

Edited by: Florian Zemmin , Colin Jager and Guido Vanheeswijck

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Volume 3 | Religion and Its Others

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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.

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Florian Zemmin, University of Bern; Colin Jager, Rutgers University, USA; Guido Vanheeswijck, University of Antwerp.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Florian Zemmin, Colin Jager and Guido Vanheeswijck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. The Potential of Taylor’s Story for Various Disciplines
Beyond the Paradigm of Secularization? Matthias Koenig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
The Temptation of Religious Nostalgia: Protestant Readings of A Secular Age Günter Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
An Order of Mutual Benefit: A Secular Age and the Cognitive Science of Religion Jonathan A. Lanman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	71
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 Guido Vanheeswijck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Liberal Pluralism in a Secular Age Aurélia Bardon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Does Religion need Rehabilitation? Charles Taylor and the Critique of Secularism Marian Burchardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Other Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine: The Limited Imaginings of a Secular Age Joyce Dalsheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
The Quest for the West in an Era of Globalization: Some Remarks on the Hidden Meaning of Charles Taylor’s Master Narrative Reinhard Schulze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
III. The Story’s Subtler Languages
Language within Language: Reform and Literature in A Secular Age Colin Jager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	207
Musical Works as ‘Higher Times’: Concert Culture in a Secular Age Oane Reitsma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Secular Moods: Exploring Temporality and Affection with A Secular Age Thomas A. Carlson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
Charles Taylor, Nietzsche and Theology in A Secular Age Samuel Shearn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	263
“Every Meaning Will have its Homecoming Festival:” A Secular Age and the Senses of Modern Spirituality Courtney Bender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
IV. Islamic Stories
A Secular Age and Islamic Modernism Florian Zemmin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
Religion as Transcendence in Modern Islam: Tracking “Religious Matters” into a Secular(izing) Age Junaid Quadri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	331
Reconsidering Transcendence/Immanence. Modernity’s Modes of Narration in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Literary Tradition Johannes Stephan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Afterword Charles Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
An Annotated Bibliography of Responses to A Secular Age Florian Zemmin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	421

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eBook published on:

March 21, 2016

eBook ISBN:

9783110375510

Hardcover published on:

March 21, 2016

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110374681

Paperback published on:

September 11, 2017

Paperback ISBN:

9783110573152

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Front matter:

9

Main content:

431

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3

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110375510

eBook ISBN: 9783110375510

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110374681

Paperback ISBN: 9783110573152

Keywords for this book

Charles Taylor; Secularity; Religion; Modernity.

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Scholars of: Social Anthropology, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, Theology, Political Science

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Working with A Secular Age

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