How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (...
Smith, James (2014) How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. Michigan: Eerdmans.Smith, James K. A. How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2014.Smith, J. (2014) How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. Michigan: Eerdmans....
Those are the two questions at the heart of sociologist Jacques Berlinerblau’s new bookHow to be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom. Berlinerblau is Director of the Program for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University. The key problem in the current debate about secularism is, ...
We will then examine some psychological and sociological issues that Bantock has invoked in defending his secular vision of the role of culture, and conclude with Barrow's curious identification of culture with general intelligence.doi:10.1111/1467-9752.00188J. Gingell...
Orthodox and Conservative Jews adamantly oppose cremation on grounds of biblical and Talmudic rulings. Many Liberal and Reform Jews support cremation as an option. However, the history of Nazi cremation of Jews during the Holocaust also influences the opinion of both secular and religious Jews agains...
As you might expect from secular China, the spring equinox is not seen-in there as it is here. Chocolate effigies of Pagan egg-laying rabbits are gone. The crucified and resurrecting Christ, donkeys and palm leaves are ne’er to be seen. The Chinese version, it turns out, is the ‘swe...
But it can just as likely have a secular meaning. However, for skeptics, it usually requires some evidence first. With believers, that leap often happens without such proof. 75% of those with the Feeling trait say they have strong beliefs about things they can’t explain, compared to 44%...
We study mathematics for its beauty, its elegance and its capacity to codify the patterns woven into the fabric of the universe. Within its figures and formulas, the secular perceive order and the religious catch distant echoes of the language of creation. Mathematics achieves the sublime; sometim...
How to be brave when family life gets tough (w/ Kelly Corrigan) Why spirituality is important in our increasingly secular world (w/ David DeSteno) How to have a say in how society is built (w/ Tessza Udvarhelyi) How to make grassroots political change (w/Katie Fahey) How to be civil...
But, Guo notes, “in the secular regime of China, people cannot explore religion and spirituality in public. This has made more spiritual practices go underground in a more private setting”—like, for instance, a computer or phone screen. ...