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Mentioned in 34 episodes
A Secular Age
Book • 2007
In 'A Secular Age', Charles Taylor explores the transformation of Western society from a pre-modern world where belief in God was inescapable to a modern secular age where believing in God is just one option among many.
Taylor argues against the 'subtraction story' of secularization, which posits that religion has been removed from society.
Instead, he describes a complex historical process involving the Reform movement in Christianity, the rise of disciplinary society, and the emergence of exclusive humanism.
The book examines how these changes have affected the conditions of belief and unbelief, and how they have shaped modern social forms, moral orders, and spiritual experiences.
Taylor argues against the 'subtraction story' of secularization, which posits that religion has been removed from society.
Instead, he describes a complex historical process involving the Reform movement in Christianity, the rise of disciplinary society, and the emergence of exclusive humanism.
The book examines how these changes have affected the conditions of belief and unbelief, and how they have shaped modern social forms, moral orders, and spiritual experiences.
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Mentioned in 34 episodes
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Brett McKay in the context of discussing the shift from an externally defined self to an internally defined self.
Brett McKay in the context of discussing the shift from an externally defined self to an internally defined self.
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From Public Citizens to Therapeutic Selves — The Hidden History of Modern Identity
Mentioned for his insights into the development of a shared scientific or global community during the Enlightenment.
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Understanding Modern Civilization
Mentioned for his concept of the "buffered personality" in the context of modernity.
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Understanding Modern Civilization
Discusses the concept of the buffered self.
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The Return of the Sacred: Mysticism, Tradition, and the Challenge of Modernity
Mentioned by Stuart Knechtle while discussing Charles Taylor's perspective on secularism and the human need to deify something.
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#87 Cliffe and Stuart Knechtle - Biblical Slaves, Women, and the Unforgivable Sin
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Phil Ford when borrowing terms to describe people for whom life is strictly a humanist project.
Phil Ford when borrowing terms to describe people for whom life is strictly a humanist project.
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Episode 193: On Conversion, or Arousing the Bodhi-Mind
Mentioned by Taimur Abdaal as a historical book that helps understand how things have developed over time.
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Taimur Discovers the Value of History
Mentioned by Nadia Bolz-Weber in the context of the post-Enlightenment world and the loss of enchantment.
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How to believe in God even when the world sucks (w/ Nadia Bolz-Weber)
Mentioned by Rudyard Lynch in a discussion about comparing medieval and modern psychological views of the world.
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Shatter the Glass of Modernity
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Yasir Qadhi as a work exploring the transformation of Western society and the decline of religious belief.
Yasir Qadhi as a work exploring the transformation of Western society and the decline of religious belief.
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What Happens When Religion Fades- 5 Western Philosophers Who Explained Its Decline
