In my first post, I discussed Charles Taylor’s book, A Catholic Modernity. I would now like to discuss a second…
Varieties of Religion Today
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The other shore
For Lilla, Westerners are the exception because we live on what he calls “the other shore.” Civilizations on the “opposite…
A Catholic Modernity?
Some readers of Sources of the Self, particularly its last few chapters, might have wondered how exactly Taylor’s indirect plea…
A cautionary tale?
It would have been enough for Lilla to frame this book as an explanation of the genealogy of bourgeois protestant…
The great separation
One should be suspicious of any argument that presents the multiple alternatives facing contemporary societies around the world today as…
The buffered self and the battle of ideas
As I read Wendy Brown's recent post on A Secular Age, I see that I made a bad job of…