The conditions of believe and unbelieve in a secular Age

• Main Author: Juan Manuel Cincunegui
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: CENALTES 2014
• Subjects: Charles Taylor; modernidad; secularización; marco inmanente; orden moral; Philosophy (General); B1-5802; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/1334a6707e9f43a4802decbaeec5f7a8

In A Secular Age the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor offered an analytical description and a genealogy of the current conditions of belief and unbelief in the North Atlantic contemporary societies. He encouraged as well a set of similar investigations in other cultural settings that are affected by the processes of modernization. He argues about the existence of ‘alternative modernities’ each one of them facing critically the univocal sociological theories of modernity and secularization that interpreted as universal the process of disenchantment occurred in the West and the setbacks with regard to the presence of religion in the public sphere and religious practice in some contemporary Western societies