Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age
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Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age

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Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age

About this book

"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, JosĂ© Casanova, NilĂŒfer 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. A Note on Citations
  6. Editors’ Introduction
  7. Chapter 1. Confronting Modernity: Maruyama Masao, JĂŒrgen Habermas, and Charles Taylor
  8. Chapter 2. A Closer Walk on the Wild Side
  9. Chapter 3. The Sacred, the Secular, and the Profane: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx
  10. Chapter 4. Completing Secularism: The Mundane in the Neoliberal Era
  11. Chapter 5. Belief, Spirituality, and Time
  12. Chapter 6. What Is Enchantment?
  13. Chapter 7. This Detail, This History: Charles Taylor’s Romanticism
  14. Chapter 8. Disquieted History in A Secular Age
  15. Chapter 9. When Was Disenchantment? History and the Secular Age
  16. Chapter 10. The Civilizational, Spatial, and Sexual Powers of the Secular
  17. Chapter 11. A Secular Age: Dawn or Twilight?
  18. Chapter 12. Can Secularism Be Other-wise?
  19. Afterword: Apologia pro Libro suo
  20. Contributors
  21. Name Index
  22. Subject Index