Secularist Humanism, Law and Religion in Ian McEwan’s The Children Act

Ian McEwan’s The Children Act focuses on a real-life conflict between religion and children’s rights in a pluralist society. By drawing on Charles Taylor’s work on religion in the “secular age”, I argue that McEwan’s narrative is ultimately built on secularist assumptions that devalue religious expe...

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Main Author: Ungureanu, Camil (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: MDPI 2021
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 7
Further subjects:B Charles Taylor
B Law
B secularist humanism
B Religion
B Jehovah’s Witnesses
B immanent frame
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