Charles Taylor and Political Religion: Overlapping Concerns and Points of Tension

This article introduces some key aspects of the secularization thesis put forward in Charles Taylor's A Secular Age (2007), with a particular view to how these might illuminate and/or complicate the study of political religion. Particularly helpful are Taylor's attention to nuance Western...

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Main Author: Fisher-Høyrem, Stefan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
In: Religion compass
Year: 2013, Volume: 7, Issue: 8, Pages: 326-337
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