Jonathan VanAntwerpen over at The Immanent Frame, a blog sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, focuses on issues of "secularism, religion and the public sphere". Currently the blog highlights Charles Taylor's new book A Secular Age and includes posts from Charles Taylor, Robert Bellah, Jose Casanova, and Wendy Brown, among others. Brown offered the best two sentence description of what A Secular Age does:
" Taylor refounds secularism as a way of being, feeling, thinking and knowing that is as nonoptional in the contemporary West as a polytheist world view was for the ancient Greeks. He gives us, in short, the first erudite phenomenology of secularism through a story of the historical construction of secular subjectivity."
Brown's critiques, and Taylor's reply are worth a look.
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Anon,
Chris
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