03702cam a2200421 a 4500 14747414 PUCPR 20240220141803.0 070226s2007 mau b 001 0 eng 2007008005 GBA743164 bnb 013761436 Uk 20090042824 9780674026766 (alk. paper) 0674026764 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocm85766076 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA UKM C#P YDXCP VP@ LMR VP@ NLGGC CDX TBS MUQ TSU NLC SMP DLC BET spa rda BET BL 2747.8 .T39 2007 211/.6 22 Taylor, Charles, 1931- A secular age / Charles Taylor. Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. ©2007 x, 874 pages ; 25 cm. rdacontent txt text rdamedia n unmediated rdacarrier nc volume Includes bibliographical references (p. [779]-851) and index. The work of reform -- The bulwarks of belief -- The rise of the disciplinary society -- The great disembedding -- Modern social imaginaries -- The spectre of idealism -- The turning point -- Providential deism -- The impersonal order -- The nova effect -- The malaises of modernity -- The dark abyss of time -- The expanding universe of unbelief -- Nineteenth-century trajectories -- Narratives of secularization -- The age of mobilization -- The age of authenticity -- Religion today -- Conditions of belief -- The immanent frame -- Cross pressures -- Dilemmas 1 -- Dilemmas 2 -- Unquiet frontiers of modernity -- Conversions. What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we –in the West, at east– largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean– of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others. Taylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created. As we see, here, today's secular world is characterized not by an absence of religion –although in some societies religious belief and practices have markedly declined– but rather by the continuing multiplication of new options, religions, spiritual, and anti-religious, which individuals and groups seize on in order to make sense of their lives and give shape to their spiritual aspirations. What this means for the world –including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence– is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless. Secularism. Religion and culture. Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008005.html 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc 33 301819 301819 0 0 lcc 0 0 15 15 66 2024-02-20 Donación de los Jesuitas 0.00 0 BL 2747.8 .T39 2007 41000000011446 2024-02-20 14:19:10 2024-02-20 33