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A Secular Age : an exercise in
breach‐mending
Author(s) -
Flanagan Kieran
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-2005.2010.01390_1.x
Subject(s) - secularity , aesthetics , persistence (discontinuity) , sociology , philosophy , law , epistemology , religious studies , political science , geotechnical engineering , engineering
This article considers three aspects of Taylor's A Secular Age : the issue of the status and authority of theological insights derived from sociological analyses; the irresolvable ambiguities of secularity, where it marks the disappearance of religion but inadvertently affirms its persistence; and the properties of nostalgia and memory that unexpectedly shape post‐secularity and the forms of enchantment it seeks.