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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

secularity: a note « Previous | |Next »
November 9, 2007

Robert Bellah in a post at Immanent Flame says that that Taylor is doing something different from what others writing about secularization have achieved, because he distinguishes three senses of secularity. Almost all the literature on secularization falls under Taylor’s first two categories of secularity:

• Secularity 1: the expulsion of religion from sphere after sphere of public life.
• Secularity 2: the decline of religious belief and practice.

But Taylor’s focus in this book is on what he calls Secularity 3: “the conditions of experience of and search for the spiritual” that make it possible to speak of ours as a “secular age.” Bellah says that he doubts that many people have even perceived this third dimension, and Taylor’s book should be as much a revelation to them as it has been to me.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 9:13 PM |