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

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. The Potential of Taylor's Story for Various Disciplines -- Beyond the Paradigm of Secularization? -- The Temptation of Religious Nostalgia: Protestant Readings of A Secular Age -- An Order of Mutual Benefit: A Secular Age and the Cognitive Science of Religion -- 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 -- Liberal Pluralism in a Secular Age -- Does Religion need Rehabilitation? Charles Taylor and the Critique of Secularism -- Other Sovereignties in Israel/Palestine: The Limited Imaginings of a Secular Age -- The Quest for the West in an Era of Globalization: Some Remarks on the Hidden Meaning of Charles Taylor's Master Narrative -- III. The Story's Subtler Languages -- Language within Language: Reform and Literature in A Secular Age -- Musical Works as 'Higher Times': Concert Culture in a Secular Age -- Secular Moods: Exploring Temporality and Affection with A Secular Age -- Charles Taylor, Nietzsche and Theology in A Secular Age -- "Every Meaning Will have its Homecoming Festival:" A Secular Age and the Senses of Modern Spirituality -- IV. Islamic Stories -- A Secular Age and Islamic Modernism -- Religion as Transcendence in Modern Islam: Tracking "Religious Matters" into a Secular(izing) Age -- Reconsidering Transcendence/Immanence. Modernity's Modes of Narration in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Literary Tradition -- Afterword -- An Annotated Bibliography of Responses to A Secular Age -- Index.

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