Social imaginaries in a globalizing world
How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world? Obviously, their relationship is not an empirical datum, liable to the procedures of verification or of logical deduction. We are in need of alternative conceptual and methodologica...
| Published in: | Religion and its others |
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| Contributors: | ; |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin Boston
De Gruyter
[2018]
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| In: |
Religion and its others (Volume 5)
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| Series/Journal: | Religion and its others
Volume 5 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Taylor, Charles 1931-
/ Globalization
/ World view
/ Post-secularism
/ Human rights
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| Further subjects: | B
Collection of essays
B Charles Taylor B Worldviews B Religion and sociology B World view B Postsecularism B Globalization B Soziale Imaginäre B Social Imaginary B Globalization Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | How to study the contemporary dynamics between the religious, the nonreligious and the secular in a globalizing world? Obviously, their relationship is not an empirical datum, liable to the procedures of verification or of logical deduction. We are in need of alternative conceptual and methodological tools. This volume argues that the concept of ‘social imaginary’ as it is used by Charles Taylor, is of utmost importance as a methodological tool to understand these dynamics. The first section is dedicated to the conceptual clarification of Taylor's notion of social imaginaries both through a historical study of their genealogy and through conceptual analysis. In the second section, we clarify the relation of ‘social imaginaries’ to the concept of (religious) worldviewing, understood as a process of truth seeking. Furthermore, we discuss the practical usefulness of the concept of social imaginaries for cultural scientists, by focusing on the concept of human rights as a secular social imaginary. In the third and final section, we relate Taylor's view on the role of social imaginaries and the new paths it opens up for religious studies to other analyses of the secular-religious divide, as they nowadays mainly come to the fore in the debates on what is coined as the ‘post-secular.’ |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 3110435128 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110435122 |