Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age

'What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age'? This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to negle...

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'What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age'? This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect. In "Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age", a prominent and varied group of scholars chart the conversations in which A Secular Age intervenes and address wider questions of secularism and secularity. The distinguished contributors include Robert Bellah, Jose Casanova, Nilufer Gole, William E. Connolly, Wendy Brown, Simon During, Colin Jager, Jon Butler, Jonathan Sheehan, Akeel Bilgrami, John Milbank, and Saba Mahmood. "Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age" succeeds in conveying to readers the complexity of secularism while serving as an invaluable guide to a landmark book.

Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King and Fear of a Queer Planet. He also writes for The Nation, The Advocate, The Village Voice, and other periodicals.

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is Director of Communications and Program Director at the Social Science R...

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Michael Warner is Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. He is the editor of American Sermons: The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King and Fear of a Queer Planet. He also writes for The Nation, The Advocate, The Village Voice, and other periodicals.

Jonathan VanAntwerpen is Director of Communications and Program Director at the Social Science Research Council. He is editor of The Immanent Frame, an SSRC blog on secularism, religion, and the public sphere.

Craig Calhoun is Director of the London School of Economics. His most recent book is The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements.

A Note on Citations
Editors’ Introduction
1. Confronting Modernity: Maruyama Masao, Jürgen Habermas, and Charles Taylor [Robert N. Bellah]
2. A Closer Walk on the Wild Side [John Milbank]
3. The Sacred, the Secular, and the Profane: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx [Wendy Brown]
4. Completing Secularism: The Mundane in the Neoliberal Era [Simon During]
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A Note on Citations
Editors’ Introduction
1. Confronting Modernity: Maruyama Masao, Jürgen Habermas, and Charles Taylor [Robert N. Bellah]
2. A Closer Walk on the Wild Side [John Milbank]
3. The Sacred, the Secular, and the Profane: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx [Wendy Brown]
4. Completing Secularism: The Mundane in the Neoliberal Era [Simon During]
5. Belief, Spirituality, and Time [William E. Connolly]
6. What Is Enchantment? [Akeel Bilgrami]
7. This Detail, This History: Charles Taylor’s Romanticism [Colin Jager]
8. Disquieted History in A Secular Age [Jon Butler]
9. When Was Disenchantment? History and the Secular Age [Jonathan Sheehan]
10. The Civilizational, Spatial, and Sexual Powers of the Secular [Nilüfer Göle]
11. A Secular Age: Dawn or Twilight? [José Casanova]
12. Can Secularism Be Other-wise? [Saba Mahmood]
Afterword: Apologia pro Libro suo [Charles Taylor]
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index
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