| 书目名称 | Interpreting Charles Taylor’s Social Theory on Religion and Secularization | | 副标题 | A Comparative Study | | 编辑 | Germán McKenzie | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Helps the reader to grasp the essential elements of a complex and nuanced debate.Bridges the realms of philosophy and social theory and shows their connections.Is the first work to deal with the socio | | 丛书名称 | Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book examines “Taylorean social theory,” its sources, main characteristics and impact. Charles Taylor’s meta-narrative of secularization in the West, prominently contained in his major work .A Secular Age. (2007), has brought new insight on the social and cultural factors that intervened in such process, the role of human agency, and particularly on the contemporary conditions of belief in North America and Europe. This study discusses what Taylor’s approach has brought to the scholarly debate on Western secularization, which has been carried on mostly in sociological terms. McKenzie interprets Taylor’s views in a way that offers an original social theory. Such interpretation is possible with the help of sociologist Margaret Archer’s “morphogenetic theory” and by making the most of Taylor’s particular understanding of the method of the social sciences and of his philosophical views on human beings, knowledge and modernity. After exploring the philosophical and sociological sources informing Taylorean social theory and proposing its basic concepts and hermeneutic guidelines, the author compares it with two widespread theories of secularization: the now waning “orthodox” accoun | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | Contemporary Religion; Critical Realism; Hermeneutic Social Science; Relational Sociology; Religion in t | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47700-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-83801-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-47700-8Series ISSN 2211-1107 Series E-ISSN 2211-1115 | | issn_series | 2211-1107 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |
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