Charles Taylor's A Secular Age Explained: What Conservatives Get Wrong about Secularism

Prof Jason Blakely explains philosopher Charles Taylor's view that everyone today is "secular" in an important sense. Religious conservatives form of mobilization and social imaginary is distinctly modern. The traditionalists therefore are unwitting modernists. This is an excerpt from a series of lecture remarks delivered in the Spring of 2020 for an undergraduate course in political theology. Texts discussed: Charles Taylor, "Future of the Religious Past" Charles Taylor, A Secular Age

[@earthjustice01]

You are doing a great service by making Taylor's ideas more accessible!

[@drewjames1778]

God this is good! Thanks for the commentary Professor.

[@WeekdayProductions]

Thanks for summarising. It’s been a while since I read a secular age so it’s great to re-encounter some of these profound essential themes from the book

[@billburgnyc]

What a great introduction to Taylor! I’d love to hear more!

[@havenbastion]

There has never been spiritual consensus.

[@saliksayyar9793]

Includes activists for Christian Zionism , an oxymoron, and Jewish Zionism, as if God can be so influenced to do their bidding of bringing in the Messiah or the Second coming.