Charles Taylor Bibliography

PRIMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Taylor, Charles. "Ethical Journeys." The Immanent Frame (2018). https://tif.ssrc.org/2018/01/16/ethical-journeys/.

Taylor, Charles. "Democratic Degeneration: Three Easy Paths to Regression." The Berlin Journal (2017). http://www.americanacademy.de/2017/12/11/democratic-degeneration-three-easy-paths-regression/?utm_source=American+Academy+in+Berlin+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cdbd426f2d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_126db9d414-cdbd426f2d-183947525.
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Transcript of the 2017 Fritz Stern Lecture, delivered on November 16, 2017, at the American Academy in Berlin.

Taylor, Charles. "Is Democracy Slipping Away?" Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (Feb 7, 2017). http://items.ssrc.org/is-democracy-slipping-away/.
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This essay by Charles Taylor draws from a lecture sponsored by the SSRC’s Anxieties of Democracy program, called “Ways Democracy Can Slip Away,” on October 17, 2016, at Roosevelt House in New York City, and is copublished in The Democracy Papers. Taylor was the program’s 2016 Democracy Fellow. Speaking in the weeks before the 2016 US election, Taylor discusses the character of modern democracies and their vulnerability to what he call “spirals of decline.” He concludes with a reflection on the present populist moment.

Translations and Reprints

Taylor, Charles. Das Sprachbegabte Tier - Grundzüge Des Menschlichen Sprachvermögens [The Language Animal. The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity] . Translated by Joachim Schulte. Suhrkamp, 2017. In German.
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Seit Jahrhunderten wird in der Philosophie über die Natur der Sprache gestritten. Für die rationalistisch-empiristische Tradition in der Folge von Hobbes, Locke und Condillac ist sie ein Werkzeug, das Menschen erfunden haben, um Informationen auszutauschen. In seinem neuen Buch bekennt sich Charles Taylor zum gegnerischen Lager der Romantik um Hamann, Herder und Humboldt und zeigt, dass der rationalistisch-empiristische Ansatz etwas Entscheidendes übersieht: Sprache beschreibt nicht bloß, sie erschafft Bedeutung, formt alle menschliche Erfahrung und ist integraler Bestandteil unseres individuellen Selbst. Taylor geht jedoch noch einen Schritt über das Denken der deutschen Romantik hinaus und entwirft eine umfassende Theorie der Sprache im Sinne des linguistischen Holismus: Sprache ist ein geistiges Phänomen, aber sie kommt auch in künstlerischen Darstellungen, Gesten, Stimmen, Haltungen zum Ausdruck und kennt daher keinen Gegensatz von Körper und Geist. Indem er dieses grundlegende Vermögen des »sprachbegabten Tiers« erhellt, wirft Taylor ein neues Licht darauf, was es heißt, ein Mensch zu sein.

Taylor, Charles. Hegel and Modern Society (Cambridge Philosophy Classics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community membership. Hegel's goal of a society of free individuals whose social activity is expressive of who they are seems an even more distant goal now, and Taylor's discussion has renewed relevance for our increasingly globalised and industrialised society. This classic work is presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century with a specially commissioned new preface written by Frederick Neuhouser.

SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Büyükokutan, Baris. "In Pursuit of Non-Western Deep Secularities: Selfhood and the "Westphalia Moment" in Turkish Literary Milieux." New Perspectives on Turkey 56 (2017): 3-32.
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This article traces Charles Taylor's "secularity three" outside the West, finding that it was present among poets but not among novelists in twentieth-century Turkey. It explains this contrast between these two very similar groups by using network analysis, highlighting the greater availability, in poetry networks, of nonpious gatekeepers to aspiring pious actors, following an initial long period of religious conflict. In order to benefit from association with these gatekeepers, pious actors learned to split their selves into two, committing themselves simultaneously to their absolutist faith and to its practical impossibility in a secular age. If and when the prospect of cross-fertilization waned, however, they would effortlessly switch back to their earlier subjectivity. Pious novelists, by contrast, underwent no such learning process. Based on these findings, I argue, first, that the study of the secular must pay greater attention to religious conflict and the ways in which it is resolved, and second, that it must consider balancing its longue-durée approach with an eventful focus.

Calano, Mark Joseph T. "Charles Taylor and the Modern Moral Sources of the Self." Scientia: The Research Journal of the College of Arts and Sciences (2015): 121-142. http://scientia-sanbeda.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Vol-4.1-M-J-T-Calano.pdf.

Joseph, John E. "The Reception of Wilhelm Von Humboldt’s Linguistic Writings in the Anglosphere, 1820 to the Present." Forum for Modern Language Studies 53, no. 1 (2017): 7-20.
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Humboldt has had a complex reception in the English-speaking world. The thesis-antithesis-synthesis rhetorical structure he inherited from Fichte has contributed to misunderstanding of his views. In the later nineteenth century he was depicted as an evolutionist, including by his prominent American disciple Brinton. His thought helped to shape twentieth-century anthropology in the USA through the work of Boas, who, however, cited him only once, and it had an impact on the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, though how much of one is debated. If Noam Chomsky’s claim to be his intellectual heir is dubious, Humboldt’s shadow looms over current work on embodied language, and is central to Taylor’s (2016) attempt to redirect the Anglophone philosophical tradition towards a conception of man as ‘the language animal’.

Junior, Joel Decothé. "Epistemologia Religiosa e Formas De Discursividades Sobrepostas: Uma Análise Desde a Política Da Secularização De Charles Taylor [Religious Epistemology and Shapes of Overlaping Discourses: An Analysis from the Politics of Secularization of Charles Taylor]." Princípios 24, no. 44 (2017): 151-184. In Portuguese.
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Neste artigo temos como objetivo tratar do significado político da secularização. Iniciamos abordando a tensão existente entre a epistemologia religiosa e a epistemologia do humanismo exclusivo. Damos continuidade problematizando a questão referente à era dos reordenamentos e da transmutação para uma nova ordem moral secularizada, na qual o agente humano se autointerpreta. Assim, destacamos a relevância da presença da epistemologia religiosa na construção de uma nova mentalidade no imaginário social moderno. Surge a implicação do exercício do self se avaliar fortemente a partir da epistemologia imanente do humanismo exclusivo. Outra abordagem empreendida deste problema é a da elaboração de uma ética da autenticidade, que interferiu na construção da identidade moral expressivista, cada vez mais desarraigada dos pressupostos da epistemologia religiosa. Então, abordamos a postura do agente humano viver o conflito de busca por autorrealização e sentido normativo-ontológico para o seu self ao articular a sua forma de vida e identidade moral numa era secular.
In this article we aim to address the political significance of secularization. We begin by addressing the tension between religious epistemology and the epistemology of exclusive humanism. We proceed to the question of the age of reordering and transmutation into a new secularized moral order, where the human agent is self-interpreting. Thus, we highlight the relevance of the presence of religious epistemology in the construction of a new mentality in the modern social imaginary. The implication of the exercise of the self arises strongly from the immanent epistemology of exclusive humanism. Another approach taken to this problem is the elaboration of an Ethics of authenticity, which interfered in the construction of expressivist moral identity, increasingly uprooted from the presuppositions of religious epistemology. So we approach the posture of the human agent to live the search conflict for self-realization and normative-ontological sense for his self by articulating his way of life and moral identity in a secular age.].

Leithart, Peter. "Reformation and the Secular Age." Patheos (Dec 21, 2017). http://www.patheos.com/blogs/leithart/2017/12/reformation-secular-age/.

Meijer, Michiel. "A Phenomenological Approach with Ontological Implications? Charles Taylor and Maurice Mandelbaum on Explanation in Ethics." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 20, no. 5 (2017): 977-991.
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This paper critically discusses Charles Taylor’s ethical views in his little known paper “Ethics and Ontology” (J Philos 100 (6): 305–320, 2003) by confronting it with the moral phenomenology of Maurice Mandelbaum, as laid out in his (largely neglected) The Phenomenology of Moral Experience (1955). The aim of the paper is to explore the significance of Taylor’s views for the dispute between naturalists, non-naturalists, and quietists in contemporary metaethics. It is divided in six sections. In the first section, I examine Taylor’s critique of naturalism. I continue to discuss his moral phenomenology in more detail in the second and third sections, arguing that Taylor’s move from phenomenology to ontology is problematic. In the fourth section, I evaluate Taylor’s strategy by comparing it with Mandelbaum’s understanding of moral phenomenology, while also extending this comparison to the issue of how to locate the source of moral experience in the fifth section. Based on these discussions, I finally conclude in the sixth section that Taylor’s hermeneutical position, although ontologically incomplete and underdemonstrated, draws attention to a question to which current moral theory does not adequately respond.

Palaver, Wolfgang. "René Girard and Charles Taylor: Complementary Engagements with the Crisis of Modernity." In The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion, edited by Wolfgang Palaver and J. Alison. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 335-342.
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Girard distanced himself from philosophy so strongly most of the time that only a few philosophers engaged with his mimetic theory. Besides philosophers committed to mimetic theory and Gianni Vattimo, Charles Taylor is one of the few philosophers who has taken Girard’s work seriously. Girard and Taylor are among those contemporary thinkers who address the crisis of modernity without ending up in a fundamentalist antimodernism. Taylor is less apocalyptic, but also does not discount the crisis of modernity, as the original title (The Malaise of Modernity) of one of his books attests. He comes closest to Girard’s apocalyptic attitude when he follows Ivan Illich’s interpretation of modernity as a perversion of Christianity.

Pirnajmmudin, Hossein and Sanaz Bayat. "Charles Taylor’s Ontological Hermeneutics and the Question of Existence in Marilynne Robinson’s Lila." Global Journal of Foreign Language Teaching 7, no. 1 (2017): 46.

Rings, Michael. "Authenticity, Self-Fulfillment, and Self-Acknowledgment." Journal of Value Inquiry 51, no. 3 (2017): 475-489.
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The philosophical literature on personal authenticity is (as many philosophical literatures admittedly are) deeply fraught and riddled with controversy. n this paper I will focus on one particular, prominent sense in which authenticity has been conceived—as an ethical ideal of self-fulfillment.1 This conception finds its most well known expression in the work of Charles Taylor, and more recently in that of Somogy Varga.2 Herein I will consider Taylor’s and Varga’s accounts of authenticity as self-fulfillment, and show that, though rich and largely successful on certain grounds, they are ultimately incomplete, failing to capture certain intuitions that seem key to our pre-theoretical notions of self-fulfillment, and are also key if authenticity is to be conceived as a full-fledged ethical ideal. I recommend that their model be integrated with another sense of authenticity, originating in Sartre’s work but also discussed in recent analytic literature, which centers on epistemic notions of self-acknowledgement. I argue that this conception supplies considerations of honesty and epistemic responsibility to oneself and others regarding the facts of one’s personal situation, condition, and character—factors that are missing in the theories of Taylor and Varga.

Rivas, Eugenio and Luiz Carlos Sureki. "Modernidade Inviável...? A Pertinência Teológica Das “Modernidades Alternativas”: Lendo Charles Taylor." Perspectiva Teológica 49, no. 3 (2017): 527. In Portuguese.

Sánchez Matito, Manuel. "Charles Taylor Y La Religión En La Actualidad." Raphisa: Revista De Antropología Y Filosofía De Lo Sagrado 1, no. 1 (2017). In Spanish.

St-Laurent, Guillaume. "La Solution Implicite De Charles Taylor Au Problème De l’« Historicisme Transcendental »." Symposium 21, no. 2 (2017): 179-207. In French.
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Notre objectif est de montrer que la théorie de l’argumentation philosophique développée par Charles Taylor apporte une solution élégante, quoiqu’implicite, au problème de l’« historicisme transcendantal » dans la tradition herméneutique contemporaine (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur). Ce problème consiste à se demander comment il peut être possible à la fois (1) de désavouer l’existence de vérités « absolues » ou « anhistoriques » et (2) de reconnaître au discours philosophique sur l’« historicité » (Geschichtlichkeit) de la pensée tous ses droits, puisque ce discours demeure de facto et de jure une pensée de l’a priori. En ce sens, mes analyses se concentre-ront sur la façon dont Taylor parvient à justifier la thèse – en apparence contradictoire – selon laquelle la réflexion philosophique peut parvenir à des conclusions « apodictiques et pourtant ouvertes à un débat sans fin ».
Our aim is to show that Charles Taylor’s theory of philosophical argumentation proposes an elegant, albeit implicit, solution to the problem of “transcendental historicism” in contemporary hermeneutics (Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur). This problem consists in asking how it is possible both to (1) disavow the existence of “absolute” or “anhistorical” truths and (2) fully acknowledge the status of philosophical discourses on “historicity” (Geschichtlichkeit), since those discourses remain de facto and de jure properly a priori. The following discussion focusses on how Taylor manages to justify the seemingly contradictory thesis that philosophical reflection can reach conclusions that are “apodictic and yet open to end-less debate.”.

Tsz, Wan Hung. "Habermas and Taylor on Religious Reasoning in a Liberal Democracy." The European Legacy 22, no. 5 (2017): 549-565.
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Abstract This article compares Habermas’s and Taylor’s approach to the role of religious language in a liberal democracy. It shows that the difference in their approach is not simply in their theories of religious language. The contrast lies deeper, in their incompatible moral theories: Habermas’s universal discourse ethics vs Taylor’s communitarian substantive ethics. I also explore William Rehg’s defence of discourse ethics by conceding that it is based on a metavalue of rational consensus. However, I argue that Habermas’s and Rehg’s discourse ethics and translation proviso are untenable. While Taylor rightly argues that there is no reason to exclude religious reason from the formal political sphere, his proposed fusion of horizons to generate a new hybrid framework is also problematic. I suggest that Taylor’s historical hermeneutics should be extended to include the narrative approach to ethical deliberation as conducive to mutual experiential understanding, and hence to achieving a fusion of horizons of the diverse worlds of citizens in a liberal democracy.

Veliq, Fabiano. "Charles Taylor and Mikhail Epstein: Proposals to Thinking Religion in Hypermodernity." Caminhos 15, no. 1 (2017): 70

Vidanec, Dafne. Charles Taylor i Njegov Moralni Svijet [Charles Taylor and his moral world] Naklada Breza, 2018. In Croatian.

von Sass, Hartmut. "Hubert Dreyfus Und Charles Taylor: Die Wiedergewinnung Des Realismus." Philosophische Rundschau 64, no. 1 (2017): 95-98

Wessman, Robert Aaron. "The church’s Witness in a Secular Age: A Hauerwasian Response to Privatized and Individualized Religion." Missiology: An International Review 45, no. 1 (2017): 56-66.
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Stanley Hauerwas has been noted for his theology of missionary “witness.” However, his theology is not uncontroversial. Of late, it is argued that his theology of witness does not often, or sufficiently, attend to the nature and complexity of belief for those people who live in contemporary, Western society. Part of this complexity, as highlighted by various sociologists and theologians, is that religion has become individualized and privatized. These are serious challenges to the church’s engagement with contemporary society, which Hauerwas does not always seem to adequately address. It will be the purpose of this article, however, to attempt to overcome this lacuna in Hauerwas’s theology, and explore if, and how, his theology might serve as a response to some of the specific challenges arising out of the growing trend towards “privatized religion” in the United States. This will be accomplished by bringing into dialogue Hauerwas’s later work on witness, with some of the sociological insights provided by Charles Taylor and Robert Wuthnow. It will be argued that Hauerwas’s theology of witness, though incomplete, does provide insights that might be helpful to the church in her missionary efforts in the United States.

Yin-Li, Wang. "The Spiritual Condition in a Secular Age: Base on the Views of Charles Taylor." Fu Dan Xue Bao.She Hui Ke Xue Ban, no. 5 (2017): 110-116.
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A peculiar narrative about the Western secularity given by Charles Taylor brings about not only a revival of secularization thesis , but also a reopening of spiritual understanding. This article discriminated three dimensions of Taylor's concept of secularity: as the understanding background of " transcendental condition" ; as the social imaginaries in the profane time ; as the excarnation from the standpoint of Christian secularization. Then it gave three possible reflections on the spiritual condition in modem time: 1 ) Taylor's work deconstructs the dichotomy of "the secular and the spiritual , " which means modern secularization is a new understanding context which is implicit and shared by secular people and religious people; 2) According to the reflective consciousness prompted by an modem immanent structure, spirituality can be properly defined as "the fullness" of lived experience; 3) Taylor's approach of social imaginaries raises the question of how to develop modem "spiritual imaginaries" to religious people.

DEDICATED VOLUMES:

Special Issue: Charles Taylor’s The Language Animal. Gesche Keding and Ulf Bohmann, eds. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017).

Keding, Gesche and Ulf Bohmann. "Introduction to the Book Symposium on the Language Animal by Charles Taylor." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 613-620. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000804.

Costa, Paolo. "The Language Animal: A Long Trajectory." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 621-632. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000774.
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In my paper, I set The Language Animal against a broader picture of Charles Taylor’s intellectual trajectory. Sources of the Self (1989) left open three major questions: (a) the viability of religious moral sources in a ‘secular’ age; (b) the compatibility between a robust moral realism and a genealogical account of modern identity; and (c) the meaning and destiny of the so-called ‘linguistic turn.’ This is the framing topic of his last book. Although Taylor’s variety of hermeneutics is unquestionably a product of the linguistic turn, he has operated with a broad notion of the linguistic capacity from the start. Language is, for him, a shared activity and the acknowledgment of its animal embeddedness functions in his work as an antidote against any too idealized a view of the kind of creatures that humans are. In his earlier writings, however, a structural tension lurked below the surface between a Gadamerian notion of Sprache and a more phenomenological, Merleau-Pontyan, embodied outlook that was less modelled on articulate speech. My claim is that his new book marks a shift from a more speech-oriented to a more body-oriented understanding of language.

Demmerling, Christoph. "Language, Concepts, and Emotions in Charles Taylor’s the Language Animal." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 633-641. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000749.
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Human beings shape the landscapes of their individual, social, and political lives entangled in a web of language. Everything that human beings do, the way they act and think, is shaped by the use of language. Charles Taylor explores these anthropological dimensions of language. This article discusses three different aspects of Taylor’s language-oriented anthropology and confronts his considerations with three distinct questions concerning the relation between language and the lives of human beings. The first question is how Taylor’s constitutive view of language can be related to his criticism of the mediational view of language. Next, the relation between language and concepts is discussed. Finally, emotions are considered.

Wesche, Tilo. "The Linguistic Capacity of Performative Speech." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 643-652. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000919.
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In my paper, I shall briefly explore a philosophy of performative speech acts, which is in line with Charles Taylor’s investigation into the human linguistic capacity. It complements the full shape of the linguistic capacity and gives an account of how reason enters thinking due to language. Language creates openness to reasons by, as I emphasize, means of a critique of self-deception, which could be accomplished by linguistic capacity.

Münch, Nikolai. "the Language Animal and the Passive Side of the Hudman Condition." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 653-667. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000889.
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In some strains of current philosophy, there is a growing interest in the passive and receptive aspects of the human condition. This interest is often paired with a criticism that ‘Western’ philosophy unduly neglects those aspects because of an ‘agential bias.’ This criticism has also been directed against the philosophy of Charles Taylor. I try to show that this criticism has some force in principle but is not plausible in the case of Taylor. First, I analyse John Rawls’ hugely influential concept of a life plan and show how this ‘agential bias’ applies here. Second, I argue that such a bias does not apply to Taylor’s The Language Animal by showing how active and passive moments are interwoven in his concepts of articulation and narration.

Killius, Markus. "The Ambivalence of Charles Taylor’s Philosophy: What Makes our Everyday Reality Real?" Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 669-679. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000932.
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In The Language Animal, Charles Taylor’s struggle to provide a theoretical framework for his narration of the self finally becomes obvious. About 30 years after he wrote his great and fascinating Sources of the Self, Taylor closes the gap between the self as a radical being-in-the-world and its analytical premises. Even if the main topic of Taylor’s new book may seem to be only a comparison of what he calls ‘HHH-theory’ and ‘HLC-theory,’ there are two other authors, the combination of whose ideas clarifies not only his approach to language but also to his concept of ‘reality’ as such: Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Beljan, Jens. "The Learner of Language: Communion, Resonance and Pedagogical Practice." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 681-691. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000865.
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This paper focuses on the process of language acquisition in childhood. Departing from accounts—such as that of Jean Piaget, which considers cognitive development as the main condition of language acquisition—Taylor shows how deeply our linguistic capacity is rooted in a prior socio-affective realm of social spaces or communion. Beyond Taylor, the question arises as to whether one can identify different normative consequences for pedagogical practices, as well as for the status of childhood in social theory. The implications of Taylor’s language theory for the relation between human and world will be suggested by connecting the intrinsic dimensions of linguistic communication to the theory of resonance.

Keding, Gesche. "Metaphors and Paradigms of the Language Animal—or—The Advantage of Seeing “Time is a Resource” as a Paradigm." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 693-704. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000762.
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One of the features of an encompassing account of language that Charles Taylor examines in Chapter Five, “The Figuring Dimension of Language,” of The Language Animal is a special kind of metaphor, which is rooted in the embodiment of humans. Their perspective-taking, their intuition of position in space, etc., provide ‘structural templates’ for thinking and leave their traces in their expressions. Taylor compares these metaphors with paradigms. My paper discusses the differences between the two. Taylor’s example ‘Time Is a Resource’ is understood more deeply if seen as a paradigm, i.e., a set of beliefs and practices, instead of as a ‘structural template,’ i.e., rooted in embodiment.

Emmerich, Marc. "The Creative Force of Discourse and the Appearance of Politics: Reading Charles Taylor with the Political Theory of Jacques Rancière." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 705-715. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000877.
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Does the creative force of discourse Taylor describes enable the subaltern to speak for themselves? To answer this question, I underlay Jacques Rancière’s concept of politics. I correlate Charles Taylor’s opposition of HLC- and HHH-language theories to Rancière’s distinction of ‘politics’ and ‘police.’ However, since the creative force of discourse also re-enacts human order through rituals and repetitions, it is not political per se. I discuss Taylor’s example of the “avuncular” relationship to show at which point the creative force could turn into a fundament of politics and where it doesn’t.

Bohmann, Ulf. "Narrative, History, Critique." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 717-729. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000798.
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In Chapter 8 of The Language Animal, Charles Taylor claims that narratives are unsubstitutable for an appropriate understanding of social life and ‘human affairs’ in general. In order to identify open questions in his argumentation as well as unwanted consequences of his outlook, I proceed in three consecutive steps. I first problematize Taylor’s distinction between laws and stories, then go on to address his intentional blurring of stories and histories, and finally suggest that the concept of genealogy might be a promising candidate for describing Taylor’s approach, concluding that he implicitly forms the equation: narrative equals history equals critique.

Taylor, Charles. "Responses to the Symposium on the Language Animal." Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 56, no. 4 (2017): 731-743. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217317000865

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Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor. Collin Hansen, ed. The Gospel Coalition, 2017.
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Probably no book published in the last decade has been so ambitious as Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. He seeks nothing less than to account for the spread of secularism and decline of faith in the last 500 years. Now a remarkable roster of writers—including Carl Trueman, Michael Horton, and Jen Pollock Michel—considers Taylor’s insights for the church’s life and mission, covering everything from healthcare to liturgy to pop culture and politics. Nothing is easy about faith today. But endurance produces character, and character produces hope, even in our secular age.
Notes: Collin Hansen, “Hope in Our Secular Age” Carl Trueman, “Taylor’s Complex, Incomplete Historical Narrative” Michael Horton, “The Enduring Power of the Christian Story: Reformation Theology for a Secular Age” John Starke, “Preaching to the Secular Age” Derek Rishmawy, “Millennial Belief in the Super-Nova” Alastair Roberts, “Liturgical Piety” Brett McCracken, “Church Shopping with Charles Taylor” Bruce Riley Ashford, “Politics and Public Life in a Secular Age” Greg Forster, “Free Faith: Inventing New Ways of Believing and Living Together” Jen Pollock Michel, “Whose Will Be Done? Human Flourishing in the Secular Age” Bob Cutillo, “The Healing Power of Bodily Presence” Alan Noble, “The Disruptive Witness of Art” Mike Cosper, “Piercing the Immanent Frame with an Ultralight Beam: Kanye and Charles Taylor”.

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Vidanec, Dafne. Charles Taylor i Njegov Moralni Svijet [Charles Taylor and his moral world] Naklada Breza, 2018. In Croatian.

INTERVIEWS:

REVIEWS:

Carman, Taylor. "[Review of] Retrieving Realism, by Hubert Dreyfus & Charles Taylor." Mind (2017). https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzx032.

Fritzman, J. M. and Ella M. Crawford. "Language is Not Merely a Means of Communication [Review of the Language Animal]." Metascience (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-017-0256-0.

Gebhardt, Eike. "Sprache Als Fortschrittsmotor." Deutschlandfunk Kultur (2017). In German. http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/charles-taylor-das-sprachbegabte-tier-sprache-als.1270.de.html?dram:article_id=401353.

Hedley, Douglas. "[Review of] Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age: Essays on Religion and Theology in the Work of Charles Taylor." Theology 119, no. 1 (2016): 41-42.

Hübl, Philipp. "Sprache Kommt Vor Beschreibung: Charles Taylor Versucht, Uns Als Sprechende Tiere Richtig in Den Blick Zu Bekommen." Frankfurter Allgemeine (19 Juli, 2017). In German. https://www.buecher.de/shop/sprachphilosophie/das-sprachbegabte-tier/taylor-charles/products_products/detail/prod_id/46774099/#reviews.

Murray, James. "Synopsis of Charles Taylor's, "A Secular Age"." Davidewart.Ca (Dec 10, 2007). http://www.davidewart.ca/2007/12/synopsis-of-cha.html.

Panagakou, Stamatoula. "[Review of] Charles Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society Hegel and Modern Society." Political Studies Review 15, no. 2 (2017): 270-270.

Segall, Matthew. "[Review of] Dreyfus, Hubert and Charles Taylor. Retrieving Realism." World Futures 73 (2017): 179-185.

Shaffett, John E. "Smith's "how (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor" (Book Review)." The Christian Librarian 57, no. 2 (2014): 176-177. http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1421&context=tcl.

Shin, Yoon. "[Review of] how (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor, Written by James K.A. Smith." Pneuma 39, no. 1-2 (2017): 251-253.

MEDIA:

Charles Taylor. "Charles Taylor on Pluralism in Canada - Interview at the Global Centre for Pluralism, Oct 30, 2014." Video. Interviews from the Global Centre for Pluralism, Oct 1, 2015. 21:41. https://youtu.be/fDxFbatvdj0
Description: Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University in Montreal, sat down with the Global Centre for Pluralism on October 30, 2014 to discuss what the Canadian experience suggests about the building blocks of pluralism.

Charles Taylor & Rajeev Bhargava. "Charles Taylor and Rajeev Bhargava – Pluralism Forum - Global Centre for Pluralism, October 30, 2014." Video. Pluralism Forums - Global Centre for Pluralism, Oct 5, 2015. 36:49. https://youtu.be/jgSJ98oMbdM
Description: Charles Taylor from McGill University in Montreal and Rajeev Bhargava from the Centre for Study of Developing Societies in New Delhi, India, discussed civic inclusion in Canada and India respectively, with moderator Jane Jenson, from the Université de Montreal, at the Global Centre for Pluralisms’ fourth Pluralism Forum on October 30, 2014.

Charles Taylor & Roger Scruton. "Roger Scruton - on the Sacred and the Secular with Charles Taylor." Video. Conservatism Archive, May 2, 2016. 1:06:16. https://youtu.be/S96G_2_a6C0.

Charles Taylor. "Charles Taylor: The Linguistic Animal." Video. UCLA, Jan 31, 2017. 1:24:27. https://youtu.be/_l-EZEatlqg
Description: Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, discusses his 2016 book The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity (Harvard University Press). Discussion is provided by Professor Anthony Pagden (UCLA Political Science) starting at 42:23.

Charles Taylor, Craig Calhoun & Michael Warner. "Charles Taylor: Secularity- A Contested Concept." Video. UCLA, Jan 31, 2017. 1:29:26. https://youtu.be/1GvlRAcT5aw
Description: Charles Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, discusses his 2007 book A Secular Age (Harvard University Press). Discussion is provided by Craig Calhoun (LSE, Berggruen Institute) and Michael Warner (Yale Department of English) starting at 35:30. The lecture was sponsored at UCLA by: Department of Sociology, Department of Philosophy, Program for Experimental Critical Theory, Center for Study of Religion, the UCLA Regents' Lecturer Program, and the Dean's Faculty Fund. Additional support was provided by the Berggruen Institute.”.

Charles Taylor. "Charles Taylor: "the Language Animal" – Institute for Social Justice." Video. Institute for Social Justice, Feb 23, 2017. 1:24:56. https://youtu.be/CT_hTtkX7ss
Description: In The Language Animal, Professor Charles Taylor shows that the accounts of the nature of language that have dominated analytic philosophy in recent decades are much too narrow, focusing on the function language plays in encoding information, at the expense of the constitutive powers of language. In this lecture, Professor Taylor refocuses attention on the creative, meaning-making, and meaning-articulating powers of language.
Recorded at the Institute for Social Justice on 22 April 2016, ACU North Sydney (Cameraygal Country). http://isj.acu.edu.au/ .

Charles Taylor. "Charles Taylor: "Secularism and Multiculturalism" – Launch of the Institute for Social Justice." Video. Institute for Social Justice, Feb 23, 2017. 47:57. https://youtu.be/Xl8HB6OG4Ck
Description: Multiculturalist policies are attempts to fulfil a requirement of modern democracies, particularly in the West: they aim to be inclusive. Yet these democracies are periodically tempted to target minorities, and brand then as second-class citizens. The temptation to do this flows from one of the core requirements of democracy, a strong common political identity. Recently many “Western” democracies (this is not simply a geographic category) have slipped into this negative stance towards religious minorities, in particular Muslims. French (and Quebec) policies of “laïcité” (secularism) provide examples. What drives these? Why the focus on religion? Are the policies which flow from this negative stance counter-productive, even dangerous? These are the questions which this talk addresses.
Professor Charles Taylor's remarks on secularism and multiculturalism were delivered at the launch of the Institute for Social Justice, a research institute of the Australian Catholic University, in the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House, on 28 April 2016.

Charles Taylor & François Crépeau. "A Lawyer and a Philosopher on “us and them”— the Migrant Question (Video)." Video. McGill University, Mar 10, 2017. 24:30. https://youtu.be/jz-5NlmTeJE
Description: Global migration has stirred questions of human rights, democracy, of living together, of ‘us and them.’ The philosopher Charles Taylor and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, McGill professor François Crépeau, explore these and other questions at a time of rising populism and what may be called the fear of others.

Charles Taylor. "Le Pluralisme Au Canada - Prof. Charles Taylor." Video. Sociologie de l'intégration, Oct. 6, 2015. 21:42. English, with French subtitleshttps://youtu.be/RlL5baCh8-I.

Charles Taylor. "Beatty Lecture-Charles Taylor [the Challenge of Regressive Democracy]." Video. McGill University, Oct 12, 2017. 1:01:44. https://youtu.be/WqZ4vG3fbTw
Description: The 2017 Beatty Memorial Lecture Presents "The Challenge of Regressive Democracy" with Professor Emeritus Charles Taylor, winner of the 2016 Berggruen Prize.
Transcript (provided by Samuel C. Porter).

Charles Taylor & Rowan Williams. "Charles Taylor & Rowan Williams in Conversation." Video. CREORMcGill, Oct 12, 2017. 1:57:30. https://youtu.be/2yj6un3Wcvs
Description: Keynote Event for "Problematizing Religious Diversity in a Secular Age" - CREOR Graduate Student Conference 2017 Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus, McGill University Rowan Williams, Master of Magdelene College Moderator: Prof. Victor Muniz-Fraticelli, McGill University.

Charles Taylor, Home Bhabha, Alondra Nelson & Glenn Lowry. "Authority, Appropriation, and the Democratic Imagination | MoMA LIVE." Video. The Museum of Modern Art, Oct 17, 2017. 1:29:30. https://youtu.be/55d4vs9MqPc
Description: Recent events have spurred heated conversations about how identity is represented and how images are used. Who has the authority to speak for whom? How is that authority acquired and arbitrated? How do these issues play out in the democratic imagination? On Tuesday, MoMA Director Glenn D. Lowry moderates a conversation with Homi Bhabha, Alondra Nelson, Charles Taylor, exploring how difference and dissent function in democracy.

Audiopedia. "Charles Taylor (Philosopher)." Video. Audiopedia, Oct 26, 2016. 15:33. https://youtu.be/TaraRAQDJAs
Description: Charles Margrave Taylor, CC GOQ FRSC is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec and professor emeritus at McGill University best known for his contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, history of philosophy and intellectual history. This work has earned him the prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Templeton Prize, and the John W. Kluge Prize, in addition to widespread esteem among philosophers. In 2007, Taylor served with Gérard Bouchard on the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on Reasonable accommodation with regard to cultural differences in the province of Quebec. He is a practising Roman Catholic.

Charles Taylor & Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar. "Beyond the Lecture: Charles Taylor on Democratic Degeneration." Audio. 15:32. Nov 16, 2017. https://soundcloud.com/american-academy-berlin/beyond-the-lecture-charles-taylor
Description: On November 16, the renowned Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor was at the American Academy to deliver the 2017 Fritz Stern lecture, “Democratic Degeneration: Three Easy Paths to Regression.” Taylor’s talk addressed a concern held by increasing numbers of thoughtful people in recent years: that democracy is sliding backwards—losing ground internationally to authoritarian rule, voter apathy, and the slogans of populist rhetoric. To understand more about Taylor’s thoughts on the subject, we arranged a discussion between him and American Academy fellow Dilip Gaonkar, a politial theorist at Northwestern University and Taylor’s decades-long colleague at the the Center for Transcultural Studies. We recorded their discussion at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, in Potsdam, where Taylor was a short-term fellow.

Charles Taylor. "Democratic Degeneration: Three Easy Paths to Regression." Video. American Academy in Berlin, Nov 20, 2017. 1:22:08. https://youtu.be/UIl56Kisp3s
Description: A recurrent liberal dream envisions inevitable progress towards worldwide democracy. Hopes for this dream were boosted at three points during the twentieth century: 1919, 1945, and 1989. Despite these advances, renowned philosopher Charles Taylor sees this dream’s realization as very unlikely. Democracies, Taylor argues, carry within them the seeds of their own degeneration. In this talk, he describes three paths upon which democracies can easily falter—and which must be fought against: elitist control, nativist exclusion, and majority rule.
Transcript: http://www.americanacademy.de/2017/12/11/democratic-degeneration-three-easy-paths-regression/?utm_source=American+Academy+in+Berlin+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cdbd426f2d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_126db9d414-cdbd426f2d-183947525.
Also available at https://vimeo.com/243562934

Charles Taylor. "2 Charles Taylor on “Karl Marx“." Video. Amir H., 2017. 44:19. In Farsi? https://youtu.be/lrC5NuOLM0Q.

Ruth Abbey. "Charles Taylor’s Legacy to Québec - Part 1." Video. CREORMcGill, Oct 24, 2017. 25:37. https://youtu.be/nXnK0g94WG0
Description: Panel Discussion, Sept. 15, 2017 "Problematizing Religious Diversity in a Secular Age," CREOR Graduate Student Conference, McGill University Moderator: Samuel Nelson, Assistant Professor, McGill University.

Jocelyn Maclure. "Charles Taylor’s Legacy to Québec - Part 2." Video. CREORMcGill, Oct 24, 2017. 21:25. https://youtu.be/ONqNfXsTH-M
Description: Panel Discussion, Sept. 15, 2017 "Problematizing Religious Diversity in a Secular Age," CREOR Graduate Student Conference, McGill University Moderator: Samuel Nelson, Assistant Professor, McGill University.

Jacob Levy. "Charles Taylor’s Legacy to Québec - Part 3." Video. CREORMcGill, Oct 24, 2017. 21:25. https://youtu.be/0LLCaOnSszo
Description: Panel Discussion, Sept. 15, 2017 "Problematizing Religious Diversity in a Secular Age," CREOR Graduate Student Conference, McGill University Moderator: Samuel Nelson, Assistant Professor, McGill University.

Pablo Lazo Briones. "Pablo Lazo Charles Taylor. Hermenéutica, Ética y Política." Video. GedisaMx, Nov 27, 2017. 3:52. Spanishhttps://youtu.be/UqvN3uGpNyw.

DISSERTATIONS AND THESES:

Bailey, Justin. "The Apologetics of Hope: Imagination and Witness in the Age of Authenticity with Special Consideration of the Work of George MacDonald and Marilynne Robinson." Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2017
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This dissertation argues that Christian witness in a secular age is in need of a more comprehensive understanding of how the dialectic of faith and doubt is experienced imaginatively, and not just intellectually. Doubters require more than good arguments; they require an aesthetic sense, an imaginative vision, and a poetic embodiment of Christianity: what it feels like to live with Christian faith. I offer an account of how imaginative engagement is central to the apologetic task by framing secularity as an imaginative crisis and then exploring two case studies of imaginative apologetics, to construct a theological model of how imaginative engagement may open a new space to consider the possibilities of faith. Chapter one draws from Charles Taylor’s account of secularity to sketch the missiological context for my argument. I seek to demonstrate that secularity is an imaginative crisis: finding faith is integrated with the quest for authenticity, a felt sense of ownership of the direction and design of one’s life. Authenticity can have both thick and thin versions, and Taylor’s account of secularity highlights the need for an apologetic method that invites thicker versions of authenticity. Chapter two considers apologetic methodologies in light of Taylor’s diagnosis. I orient the discussion around Friedrich Schleiermacher’s apologetic of feeling, drawing attention to his followers as well as to his critics. The goal is to listen to these voices and to highlight the need for broader theological horizons against which a thick version of authenticity can emerge. Chapter three seeks to provide such horizons by articulating a constructive theology of the imagination. I distinguish between three overlapping aspects of imagining: aesthetic sense (where a world of meaning impresses itself on the imagination), orienting vision (where the imagination expresses itself towards the world), and poetic practice (where space is made for negotiation of sense and sight). This also requires a description of how God engages, how sin impairs, and how grace renews the human imagination, and I work within the Calvinist theological tradition to give such an account. Having articulated the problem and sketched theological horizons for imaginative apologetics, the next two chapters seek generative models for imaginative apologetics in a Calvinist key. George MacDonald and Marilynne Robinson provide these models. MacDonald and Robinson rarely make direct arguments. Rather, they thrust the reader into the midst of stories that imaginatively embody the faith’s appeal to the human person. My goal was to discern MacDonald’s and Robinson’s method not primarily as rhetorical strategy but as the natural out-working of their theology. For both thinkers, this theology of divine address works itself out in novels that look for God in the most ordinary experiences of life. In chapter six I draw the first five chapters together to sketch the contours of an imaginative apologetic approach. I offer three desiderata for an imaginative apologetic approach, corresponding to the three dimensions of imagining outlined in chapter three.

Frey, Alexandra. "Die Säkularisierungsthese Nach Charles Taylor : Religionspädagogische Erkundungen Und Perspektiven in Der Postmoderne."RWTH Aachen University, 2017
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Die vorliegende Arbeit „Die Säkularisierungsthese nach Charles Taylor - religionspädagogische Erkundungen und Perspektiven in der Postmoderne“ nimmt die Auseinandersetzung mit der Säkularisierungsthese bei Charles Taylor in der Gesamtschrift "Ein säkulares Zeitalter" als Grundlage. Dabei wird diese Gesamtschrift durch eine prononcierte, hermeneutische Vorgehensweise bearbeitet und greift insbesondere religionspädagogische Aspekte der Veränderung der Religion sowie Implikationen für die veränderte Situation der Religion in der Postmoderne in Folge der Säkularisierung auf. In dieser Vorgehensweise wird die Situation der Religion um 1500 als Ausgangspunkt der inhaltliche Betrachtung und Referenzpunkt genommen, von dem ausgehend die Entwicklung und Veränderung der Religion über 500 Jahre skizziert wird bis hin zur Situation der Religion in der Postmoderne. Der sich ergeben Kontrast zwischen der Situation der Religion um 1500 und in der Postmoderne gibt Anlass zur Überlegung wie die Bedeutung, der Zugang und die sich ergebende Verständlichkeit der Religion in der Postmoderne religionspädagogisch gestaltet ist. Durch die auftretenden Probleme der Religion in Folge der Säkularisierung zeigt Taylor Perspektiven einer vitalen und anschlussfähigen Form der Religion auf, als religionspädagogischer Ausblick zur Säkularisierungsthese. Im weiteren wird ausgehend von dieser Darstellung der Veränderung der Religion über 500 Jahre bei Taylor das Problemfeld der Beschreibung und der begrifflichen Unschärfe des Religionsbegriffs als auch des Säkularisierungsbegriffs aus religionspädagogischer Perspektive aufgezeigt. Hinsichtlich des Säkularisierungsbegriffs grenzt Taylor drei Bedeutungen voneinander ab: Säkularisierung im öffentlichen Bereich als Bedeutungsrückgang der Religion und Bezugnahme auf Rationales; Säkularisierung als gesamtgesellschaftliche Trennung zwischen Kirche und Staat sowie Säkularisierung als veränderte Bedingungen des Glaubens, wobei der Glaube als eine Option neben anderen in der säkularen Gesellschaft verstanden wird. Allein durch diese Bedeutungsvielfalt des Säkularisierungsbegriffs, welcher je nach vorliegendem Konzepte verschieden rezipiert wird, wird der Begriff sowie die Frage nach der Säkularisierung zu einem komplexen, eigenständigen Problem, welches eine differenzierte Betrachtung erfordert. Ebenso kann der Religionsbegriff je nach Kontext verschieden verwendet werden, so dass in der vorliegenden Arbeit eine Fokussierung des Religionsbegriffs auf ein substanzielles sowie ein funktionales Verständnis der Religion vorgenommen wird. Diese Fokussierung des Religionsbegriffs geschieht in Anlehnung an Taylor, der die Religion implizit in durch ihrer funktionale Bedeutung für die Gesellschaft und das Indivdiuum sowie durch das substanzielle Verständnis der Religion als Verweis auf eine transzendente Ebene beschreibt. Mit dieser begrifflichen Grundlage kann eine strukturierte Darstellung des religiösen Wandlungsprozesses bei Taylor sowie durch anderen religionspädagogische Konzepte, beispielsweise nach Joas, Habermas, Höhn Ziebertz und Berger, vorgenommen werden. Durch diese Konzepte kann als hermeneutischer Schlüssel eine Ergänzung und Kontextuierung der Darstellung Taylors geleistet werden. Im Ergebnis kann die klassische Säkularisierungsthese der Soziologie, welche mit der zunehmenden Industrialisierung und Modernisierung einen Rückgang der Religion bis zu einem Verlust der Religion beschreibt, aus religionspädagogischer Perspektive überprüft und durch religionspädagogische Konzepte der Postmoderne ergänzt werden. Durch diese umfangreiche Betrachtung des religiösen Wandlungsprozesses unter dem Signum der Säkularisierung kann eine differenzierte und vielschichtige Beschreibung der Religion in der Postmoderne geleistet werden. Die differenzierte Betrachtung zeigt, dass einerseits die klassische Säkularisierungsthese nicht auf die Situation der Religion in der Postmoderne passt und andererseits eine eindimensionale Erklärung, im Sinn einer Subtraktion der Religion aus dem gesellschaftlichen und individuellen Bereich, den religiösen Wandlungsprozess kausal nicht erklären kann. Vielmehr muss die Religion in der Postmoderne, in Anlehnung an die Darstellung Taylors, als Ergebnis der historischen, soziologischen und religionspädagogischen Entwicklung verstanden werden. So ist aufgrund der veränderten gesellschaftlichen und individuellen Gegebenheiten eine veränderte Bedeutung und Wahrnehmung der Religion in der Postmoderne zu konstatieren, welche durch eine plurales religiöses Angebot beantwortet wird. Mit dem pluralen religiösen Angebot ergibt sich eine veränderte Bedeutung und Formenvielfalt der Religion, so dass die Religion eine veränderte Präsenz erfährt und neue Möglichkeiten der Begegnung mit Religion, des Zugangs zur Religion und eine Vermittlung von Religion erforderlich werden. So wird die Religion in der Postmoderne als gesellschaftliche Wurzel und kulturstiftende Größe wahrgenommen, welche verschiedene Bedeutungen und Erscheinungen in der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert. Ausgehend von diesen umfangreichen Veränderungen der Religion, welche als Säkularisierung beschrieben werden können, sind Auswirkungen auf die klassischen Bildungsinstanz und die Vermittlung von Religion in der Postmdoerne festzustellen. In Folge dieser Veränderungen ist Religion in der Postmoderne als individuell gestaltete Form und plurales religiöses Angebot wahrzunehmen. So kann nur durch einen individuellen Zugang zur Religion und das damit verbundene Verständnis und die Bedeutung der Religion, eine vitale und anschlussfähige Form der Religion konstruiert werden. Die individuelle Konstruktion von Religion kann individuelle religiöse Bedürfnisse, Vorstellungen und Erfahrungen aufgreifen und Religion somit verständlich und authentisch gestalten. Diese individuelle Form der Religion ist je nach Kontext substanziell oder funktional geprägt, so dass die individuelle Form der Religion eine Mischform aus substanziellen, religiösen Elementen, als transzendenter Verweis, und funktionalen, religiösen Elementen, als gesellschaftliche und individuelle Stütze, welche Orientierung, Stabilität und Sinnstiftung vermittelt, darstellt. Im dritten Teil der Arbeit werden religionspädagogische Konsequenzen aus der festgestellten Veränderung der Religion durch erkenntnisleitende Fragen abgeleitet werden. Hierbei stehen zentrale religionspädagogische Fragen, wie beispielsweise die Frage nach dem Verlust der Religion in der Postmoderne sowie die Frage nach der Anschlussfähigkeit und Vitalität der Religion, als auch die Problematik der Begegnung mit sowie der Vermittlung von Religion in den klassischen Bildungsinstanzen im Zentrum der Überlegungen. Grundlegend muss die Religionspädagogik die veränderte Situation der Religion in der Postmoderne, als einer Option der Weltdeutung neben anderen, wahrnehmen und die Begegnung als auch den Zugang und die Verständlichkeit der Religion individuell schlüssig und pluralitätsfähig gestalten. Diese grundlegende neue Wahrnehmung der Religion wird in den religionspädagogischen Konzepten des Narthex als Zugang zur Religion und der Religion als Element des indivduellen Begehrens sowie der Begegnung mit Religion als disperse Form ertragreich angewendet. Diese Konzepte ermöglichen eine Begegnung mit Religion als transzendentes Element im profanen Bereich und greifen damit individuelle religiöse Bedürfnisse auf.Jedoch müssen die individuellen religiösen Bedürfnisse und das religiöse Begehren erst durch eine grundlegende religiöse Bildung erschlossen werden, welche in Bezug zu den veränderten Bedingungen der Religion neu gestaltet werden muss. Hierbei muss der religiöse Sensus, als menschlicher Sinn, der religiöse Zusammenhänge aufspürt und Religion damit individuell erschließen kann, wahrgenommen und geschult werden. Der religiöse Sensus stellt einen Schlüssel für das individuelle religiöse Begehren sowie für das Wahrnehmen religiöser Zusammenhänge im rationalen Kontext der Postmoderne dar. Ebenso kann durch den religiösen Sensus eine religiöse Sprachfähigkeit und ein religiöses Symbolverständnis grundlegend erlernt werden, durch welches das plurale religiöse Angebot der Postmoderne individuell erschlossen und zu einer Konstruktion von Religion genutzt werden kann. Insgesamt muss in Reaktion auf die veränderte Situation und Erscheinung der Religion in der Postmoderne die Begegnung mit und der Zugang zur Religion religionspädagogisch grundlegend neu verstanden werden. Damit kann Religion in der Postmoderne nicht auf die traditionellen Bildungsinstanzen beschränkt weden, sondern wird im Kontext alltäglicher Erfahrung und einer individuellen Weltsicht erfahren. Durch diese tiefgreifenden und wegweisenden Veränderung der Religion stellt die Säkularisierung aus religionspädagogischer Perspektive eine notwendige und gewinnbringende Entwicklung für die Vermittlung und den Zugang zur Religion in der Postmoderne dar.

Motts, Zachariah. "Open Itineraries: Engaging Charles Taylor in the Evangelical Church." Ph.D., Asbury Theological Seminary, 2017
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This thesis explores the application of the work of Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor to current issues facing the evangelical church. It details eight major themes drawn from Taylor’s thought (self, moral sources, social imaginaries, fragility and cross-pressures, secularism, multiculturalism, language and moral understanding, and fullness) followed by discussions of what those themes, if true, mean for the evangelical church. Areas of application include theology, missiology, ecclesiology, and political engagement. In the much-changed environment of our current “secular age,” the richness and depth of Charles Taylor’s analysis can be an able resource for evangelical self-understanding and course-correction as pastors and churches navigate into the future.

Smit-Hobbs, Jennifer. "The Campaign Continues: Charles Taylor's Anti-Naturalism in A Secular Age." M.A., Open Universiteit, Netherlands, 2017.

Söderberg, Per-Erik. "Integration Bortom Det Sekulära : En Teoretisk Undersökning Av Integrationsbegreppet; Integration Beyond the Secular : A Theoretical Study of the Concept of Integration."Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2017
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Undersökningen syftar till att utforska en postsekulär variant av integrationsbegreppet, genom att kritiskt granska aktuell forskning om integration. Detta genom ett explorativt begreppsstudium som primär metodologisk ansats, ett allmänt litteraturstudium som sekundär ansats, samt ett intersektionellt perspektiv som komplementär teoretisk ansats. Undersökningens postsekulära teoretiska ramverk utgörs av Zygmunt Baumans teori om flytande modernitet, Charles Taylors teori om den dialogiska funktionen, och Seyla Benhabibs teori om deliberativ demokrati. Undersökningen visar på fem centrala dimensioner av det postsekulära integrationsbegreppet; (i) mer än enbart religion, (ii) förändrade maktförhållanden och villkor, (iii) intersektionalitet, (iv) samtida aktivism, och slutligen (v) ideal och visioner. Den första dimensionen syftar till att problematisera den vetenskapliga debatten om postsekularitet, och påpeka dess ensidiga betoning på religion och religiositet i relation till sekulära samhällen. Den andra dimensionen syftar till att undersöka maktförhållanden och villkor, med grund i historiska, ekonomiska, sociala och globala faktorer. En tredje dimension belyser den mänskliga identitetens komplexitet och dess transformation, utifrån maktrelationer och tillhörighetskategorier. Den fjärde dimensionen som trädde fram accentuerade begrepp som deliberativ demokrati, omförhandling, försoning och solidaritet. Fokus lades främst på socialt engagemang och gräsrotsinitiativ som former av aktivism. Den femte och avslutande dimensionen anspelar på idealets och visionernas betydelse, och hur dessa träder fram i samtida sekulär kontext. Med grund i undersökningens resultat, är det möjligt att påvisa hur traditionella förståelser av integrationsbegreppet framträder som otillräckliga och kontraproduktiva i strävan efter jämlik och inkluderande integration. The purpose of this study is to explore a postsecular alternative to the concept of integration, through a critical examination of current research on integration. This is achieved through an explorative conceptual study as the primary method, a general literature study as the subordinate method, and an intersectional perspective as a complementary theoretical approach. The postsecular theoretical framework of this thesis consists of Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of liquid modernity, Charles Taylor’s theory of the dialogical function, and Seyla Benhabib’s theory of deliberative democracy. The study presents five central features of the postsecular concept of integration as being; (i) more than just religion, (ii) change in power relations and conditions, (iii) intersectionality, (iv) contemporary activism, and lastly (v) ideals and visions. The first feature aims to scrutinize the scientific postsecular debate, and point out its one-sided emphasis on religion and religiosity in relation to secular societies. The second feature aims to examine power relations and conditions, constituted by historical, economic, social and global factors. A third feature illuminates the complexity and transformation of identity, with regards to power relations and categories of belonging. The fourth feature which appeared in the study emphasized concepts like deliberative democracy, renegotiation, reconciliation and solidarity. The focal point being social commitment and grassroots- levels of initiatives as forms of activism. The fifth and concluding feature refers to the significance of ideals and visions and how these appear in contemporary secular context. Based on this study, it is possible to claim how traditional understandings of the concept of integration appear inadequate and counterproductive in the endeavor of an equal and inclusive integration.

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