Overview

This collection of essays critically engages with Charles Taylor’s idea of a Catholic modernity through focusing on the crucial issue of the shape and role of religion in modernity. Taylor launched the idea in his seminal 1996 essay A Catholic Modernity?, and the idea is here explored in relation to other Christian denominations and non-Christian traditions. Taylor’s proposal has the potential to become a central and encompassing perspective in thinking about relations between modernity and religion/transcendence in each religious tradition. Six leading authors from diverse backgrounds—David Martin, Bernice Martin, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Robert Cummings Neville, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Jonathan Boyarin—assess Taylor’s Catholic modernity idea and probe whether and how the extension to other religious modernities (Anglican, Pentecostal, Confucian, Islamic, Jewish) makes sense—or not. Charles Taylor reacts to their considerations and reflects on his own idea 25 years on.

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Author:   Anthony Carroll ,  Staf Hellemans ,  Robert Cunnings Neville (Boston University) ,  Bernice Martin (Independent Scholar)
Publisher:   Amsterdam University Press
Imprint:   Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:  

9789463721189

ISBN 10:   9463721185
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   06 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Modernity and Transcendence - Anthony J. Carroll & Staf Hellemans Pointing to Transcendence: Reflections from an Anglican Context - David Martin A Pentecostal Modernity? Response to Charles Taylor's A Catholic Modernity? - Bernice Martin Transcendence, Catholicism and the Challenges of Modernity - Francis Schussler Fiorenza Confucian Modernity, Ultimacies, and Transcendence - Robert Cummings Neville Time, Transcendence in Islamic Thought and an Embrace of Catholic Modernity - Souleymane Bachir Diagne Out of the Depths of Modernity: Fragments of a Response to Charles Taylor's A Catholic Modernity? in a Jewish Idiom - Jonathan Boyarin Comments on the Contributors - Charles Taylor A Catholic Modernity 25 Years on - Charles Taylor Afterword: From Catholic Modernity to Religious Modernities - Anthony J. Carroll & Staf Hellemans

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Anthony J. Carroll is Dean of Systematic Theology, College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, United Kingdom. Areas of expertise: History of Philosophy, Systematic Theology, Sociology of Religion. Staf Hellemans is Professor Emeritus in the Sociology of Religion, School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Areas of expertise: Pillarization Research, Catholicism and Modernity, Historical Sociology.

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