Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor's Master Narrative

by Florian Zemmin (Editor), Colin Jager (Editor), Guido Vanheeswijck (Editor)

Overview

Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age has been extensively discussed, criticized, and worked on. This volume, by contrast, explores ways of working with Taylor’s book, especially its potentials and limits for individual research projects. Due to its wide reception, it has initiated a truly interdisciplinary object of study; with essays drawn from various research fields, this volume fosters substantial conversation across disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110573152
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	09/11/2017
Series:	Religion and Its Others , #3
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Florian Zemmin, University of Bern, Colin Jager, Rutgers Universityand Guido Vanheeswijck, University of Antwerp.

Table of Contents

Introduction Florian Zemmin Colin Jager Guido Vanheeswijck 1

I The Potential of Taylor's Story for Various Disciplines

Beyond the Paradigm of Secularization? Matthias Koenig 23

The Temptation of Religious Nostalgia: Protestant Readings of A Secular Age Günter Thomas 49

An Order of Mutual Benefit: A Secular Age and the Cognitive Science of Religion Jonathan A. Lanman 71

II The Story's Normative Implications

The Ambiguity of "Post-Secular" and "Post-Metaphysical" Stories: On the place of Religion and Deep Commitments in a Secular Society Guido Vanheeswijck 95

Liberal Pluralism in a Secular Age Aurélia Bardon 123

Does Religion need Rehabilitation? Charles Taylor and the Critique of Secularism Marian Burchardt 137

Other Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine: The Limited Imaginings of a Secular Age Joyce Dalsheim 159

The Quest for the West in an Era of Globalization: Some Remarks on the Hidden Meaning of Charles Taylor's Master Narrative Reinhard Schulze 175

III The Story's Subtler Languages

Language Within Language: Reform and Literature in A Secular Age Colin Jager 207

Musical Works as 'Higher Times': Concert Culture in a Secular Age Oane Reitsma 229

Secular Moods: Exploring Temporality and Affection with A Secular Age Thomas A. Carlson 245

Charles Taylor, Nietzsche and Theology in A Secular Age Samuel Shearn 263

"Every Meaning Will have its Homecoming Festival:" A Secular Age and the Senses of Modern Spirituality Courtney Bender 283

IV Islamic Stories

A Secular Age and islamic Modernism Florian Zemmin 307

Religion as Transcendence in Modern Islam: Tracking "Religious Matters" into a Secular(izing) Age Junaid Quadri 331

Reconsidering Transcendence/Immanence. Modernity's Modes of Narration in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Literary Tradition Johannes Stephan 349

Afterword Charles Taylor 369

An Annotated Bibliography of Responses to A Secular Age Florian Zemmin 385

Index 421