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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Secular age"”.
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The Jesuit Imaginary: Higher Education in a Secular Age
The philosopher Charles Taylor argues in A Secular Age (2007) that people who live in secular cultures are losing the capacity to experience genuine "fullness." Described by Taylor as a philosophical-anthropological conception of human flourishing that corresponds with existential senses of meaning …
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
… viewed by the critical establishment as “secular” (e.g., Jonathan Lethem) for whom the concern is a bit more subversive, a backdoor or, as John McClure puts it in his book, Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (2007), a “crasser” spirituality, so to speak. …
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The Effect of Power and Colonialism on Religion and Secularization: Expanding Taylor's A Secular Age
… on Charles Taylor’s historical analysis in <em>A Secular Age</em>, this dissertation reveals connections between the process of Euro-Western secularization and its roots in the universalizing project of Christianity. This work asserts that religion, a term often identified with Christianity, …
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Time Machines: technology, temporality, and the Victorian social imaginary
… framework developed by Charles Taylor in his A Secular Age (2007), this thesis seeks to recast the question of Victorian ‘secularization’ – a notion largely abandoned by historians. It does so by analysing the temporal dimension of three Victorian social imaginaries and their technological …
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Can art be a medium for connection with God: reflections on Taylor, Aquinas and Maritain
… of the Church's mission in the context of a secular generation. It aims to raise important questions at the intersection of theology, art, culture, and Christian mission, and to illustrate how the Church can engage a secular generation through art. The project proposes a bridge that connects …
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‘If paying tithing means that you don’t have enough money to feed your family, pay tithing’: Examining power through the law of tithing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
… maintains its membership in an increasingly secular age. This analysis reveals that the Church employs a transfigured form of Pastoral Power that implicates elements of Disciplinary Power as it applies to the contemporary moment, with the goal of creating a group of obedient and faithful …
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Not Peace But the Sword: Violence in Contemporary American Catholic Literature
… of the power dynamics at work in the modern age, I contend that these power dynamics are not a central concern for Catholic authors. Rather, in Catholic fiction, violence functions as a catalyst that leads characters toward a moment of insight or self-reflection, which is often tied to the …
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Collective and Individual Rationality: Some Episodes in the History of Economic Thought
… seeks to re-establish the invisible hand in a secular age, replacing the agency of a deity with an evolutionary mechanism. Hayek's evolutionary theory, criticised here as being based on the exploded notion of group selection, cannot underpin the desirability of spontaneous outcomes. I conclude …
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Visions of Origins and Ends: Personhood in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, John Heath-Stubbs, and Geoffrey Hill
… the frontiers of the human condition in a secular age through the poetry of T.S. Eliot, discovering that it is in visions of protology and eschatology that Eliot constructs a theological anthropology, challenged and developed by his poetic successors Geoffrey Hill and John Heath-Stubbs, …
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Death, Dying and Dark Tourism in Contemporary Society: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis
… The research finds that in a contemporary secular age where ordinary and normal death is sequestered behind medical and professional façades, yet abnormal and extraordinary death is recreated for popular consumption, dark tourism plays a mediating role between life and death. Ultimately, …
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Exit the King: Sovereignty and Subjectivity in the English Baroque
… the Baroque to diagram this period’s unresolved secularizing pressures, not just in its margins but in texts at the heart of the traditional canon. These disparate works amount to a systemic, self-coherent cultural revolution: a networked era of artistic production that is congruent (but not …
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Romantic Humility: Literature, Ethico-Politics, and Emotion, 1780-1820
… philosophy, scientific progress, and secularization, which led to the view that human life is self-contained and without an externally defined purpose, and that human relations can be understood by considering society simply as an aggregate of individuals who are each driven by desire …
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Conscience, ethics and politics: beyond beautiful souls
… problem of conscience. To show how this thesis stages a conversation between three thinkers: Charles Taylor, Gillian Rose and Rowan Williams. I offer a critical survey of efforts to respond to the difficulties that conscience presents, before examining Taylor’s work on moral inarticulacy and …
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Form's Philosophy: Poetry and Moral Thinking in Gerard Manley Hopkins, T.S. Eliot, and Geoffrey Hill
… nature of moral reflection in an increasingly secular age. The dissertation’s central three chapters argue especially for the salience of each poet’s formal repertoire, reflecting as I believe they do distinctive and rigorous engagements with philosophy, theology, and politics. Secondly, the …