46. The Building of Secularisation

In this episode we begin a new section of A Secular Age, looking at how various parties construct their narratives of secularisation and the impact this has.

There is a pervading notion that religion is either false, irrelevant, or unattractive, and that secularisation is a simple transfer of this reality via diffusion and differentiation. The narrative would say that those wishing to sustain religion must find new purpose to give it.

We would say that it's the other way around- faith sustains us, and is the truest, most relevant, most attractive thing.

References:

-Pages of A Secular Age, Charles Taylor (pp 423-437)