My hunch is that immanence does not necessarily lead to the “exclusive humanism” of which Taylor is so critical. My…
Book blog
Scholars from varying disciplines engage in critical discussions of recent books. Additionally, scholars introduce their books with an original essay or, occasionally, an original essay reviews an important new book, connecting it to other threads of conversation in the academy and beyond.
You can read our very first book forum, on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the continued discussion around Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age here.
The truth?
As many here have noted, A Secular Age is a remarkable achievement. And it marks the culmination of a life’s…
That weird strange thing
That Charles Taylor’s massive book on the malaises and predicaments of secularity could be taken by so many distinguished intellectuals…
After Durkheim
I continue, as I reread it, to have the highest opinion of A Secular Age and to believe that it…
Deus absconditus and disenchantment
Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age is an inspired yet rigorously argued Wagnerian effort to analyze the distinctive anxieties of modern…
The scope and uses of secularity
Early in Charles Taylor’s study, he remarks that the secular condition, in which belief is an option and religion a…
Secularism, hegemony, and fullness
What are the stakes in wanting a fixed definition of religion, whether in terms of “a sense of fullness,” as…
Human rights in a secular age?
The theme of loss is...a deep undercurrent in Taylor’s account. One question that those of us working in the area…
Secularization ain’t dead yet
Normally, when one sits down to read a book hailed by a figure such as Robert Bellah as “one of…
Problems around the secular
One great problem is that the term “secular” is a western term, and corresponds to a very old distinction within…