Philosophize This!
Episode #240 ... Varieties of Religion Today (Charles Taylor)
November 8, 202529 min · 6,313 words
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Today we talk more about the work of Charles Taylor and his book The Varieties of Religion Today. We look at different answers to a classic question around religious belief. The sociological and structural role that religion plays at any given point in history. Paleo, Neo and Post Durkheim versions of religious society. What religion becomes in the age of authenticity we live in.
Highlighted moments
transcendent meaning was so baked into the way that everybody viewed everything that you go back to certain points in history, and if someone had the thought, what if everything's meaningless? It just, in practice, wouldn't have been a thought that was very persuasive to them.
“religion provides a level of shared meaning, shared priorities, rights, and ceremonies. Religion is something that binds otherwise individual people together into a we.”
“when real religious community doesn't really matter anymore, because it's only what an individual person feels that matters, Charles Taylor's going to say, think of all the problems this potentially creates for specifically a modern person.”
“James is our great philosopher of the cusp. He tells us more than anyone else about what it's like to stand in that open space and feel the winds pulling you now here, now there.”
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