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Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Part I: Meta-Narrative; Chapter 1: The Contemporary Landscape ofßTheories ofßSecularization; 1.1 Secularization inßClassical Sociology; 1.2 The Contemporary Debate onßSecularization; 1.2.1 The Orthodox Paradigm: "Modernization Entails Religious Decline"; 1.2.2 The Counter-Orthodox Paradigm: "Modernization Entails Religious Vitality; Secularization Is aßSelf-ƯLimiting Process inßSuch aßContext"; 1.2.3 Revisionist Approaches: "Modernity Is AboutßReligious Change, Not Necessarily Decline Nor Revitalization."
1.3 Balance ofßtheßDebate andßImportant Related Issues1.4 Where Are WeßNow andßtheßTaylorean Position; References; Chapter 2: Charles Taylor's Account ofßSecularization (I); 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Defining theßProblem; 2.3 (Re) Describing theßSecularization Process inßtheßWest; 2.4 How Did Secularization Happen?; 2.5 North Atlantic Secularization; 2.5.1 Ancien Régime; 2.5.2 Age ofßMobilization; 2.5.3 Age ofßAuthenticity; 2.5.4 The American (or European?) Exception; References; Chapter 3: Charles Taylor's Account ofßSecularization (II); 3.1 The Way toßExclusive Humanism; 3.1.1 History ofßReform.
3.1.2 Providential Deism, Impersonal Order andßExclusive Humanism3.2 Our Contemporary Conditions ofßBelief; 3.2.1 Living inßanßImmanent Frame; 3.2.2 Closed World Structures; 3.2.3 Living Cross-Pressured; 3.2.4 Mutual Fragilization ofßtheßPoles; 3.3 Looking into theßFuture; References; Part II: Sources; Chapter 4: Philosophical andßClassic Sociological Sources; 4.1 "Philosophical Anthropology" andßtheßHermeneutical View ofßtheßSciences ofßMan; 4.1.1 Humans asß"Self-Interpreting" Beings; 4.1.2 Ethically-Bounded Selves; 4.1.3 Modernity andßEpistemology.
4.1.4 Hermeneutical Nature ofßtheßSocial Sciences4.2 Taylor andßClassical Sociology; 4.2.1 Taylor andßWeber; 4.2.2 Taylor andßDurkheim; 4.2.3 Taylor andßMarx; 4.2.4 Classical Sociology asß"Acultural Theory"; References; Chapter 5: Contemporary Sociological Sources; 5.1 Sources forßtheßRedefinition ofßtheßProblem; 5.1.1 New Hermeneutics andßaßNon-universal Uneven Trajectory; 5.1.2 Some Misunderstandings; 5.1.3 Conditions ofßBelief; 5.2 Sources forßtheßSocio-historical Analysis ofßSecularization; 5.2.1 Social Imaginaries inßGeneral; 5.2.2 Modern Social Imaginaries; 5.2.3 Civil Religion.
5.2.4 Elite-Masses Relationships5.3 Sources forßaßHistory ofßReform; 5.3.1 Axial Religion; 5.3.2 History ofßReform; 5.4 Sources forßContemporary Religion andßtheßSecular/Religious Divide; 5.4.1 Religion Today; 5.4.2 Varieties ofßtheßSecular/Religious Divide; 5.5 A Balance ofßTaylor's Sociological Sources; References; Part III: Taylorean Social Theory; Chapter 6: Interpreting aßSocial Theory; 6.1 Mapping Taylorean Social Theory; 6.1.1 Structure andßHuman Agency; 6.1.2 Social Imaginaries asßLinking theßSocial andßtheßCultural; 6.1.3 Social Change vs. Social Stability.
1.3 Balance ofßtheßDebate andßImportant Related Issues1.4 Where Are WeßNow andßtheßTaylorean Position; References; Chapter 2: Charles Taylor's Account ofßSecularization (I); 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Defining theßProblem; 2.3 (Re) Describing theßSecularization Process inßtheßWest; 2.4 How Did Secularization Happen?; 2.5 North Atlantic Secularization; 2.5.1 Ancien Régime; 2.5.2 Age ofßMobilization; 2.5.3 Age ofßAuthenticity; 2.5.4 The American (or European?) Exception; References; Chapter 3: Charles Taylor's Account ofßSecularization (II); 3.1 The Way toßExclusive Humanism; 3.1.1 History ofßReform.
3.1.2 Providential Deism, Impersonal Order andßExclusive Humanism3.2 Our Contemporary Conditions ofßBelief; 3.2.1 Living inßanßImmanent Frame; 3.2.2 Closed World Structures; 3.2.3 Living Cross-Pressured; 3.2.4 Mutual Fragilization ofßtheßPoles; 3.3 Looking into theßFuture; References; Part II: Sources; Chapter 4: Philosophical andßClassic Sociological Sources; 4.1 "Philosophical Anthropology" andßtheßHermeneutical View ofßtheßSciences ofßMan; 4.1.1 Humans asß"Self-Interpreting" Beings; 4.1.2 Ethically-Bounded Selves; 4.1.3 Modernity andßEpistemology.
4.1.4 Hermeneutical Nature ofßtheßSocial Sciences4.2 Taylor andßClassical Sociology; 4.2.1 Taylor andßWeber; 4.2.2 Taylor andßDurkheim; 4.2.3 Taylor andßMarx; 4.2.4 Classical Sociology asß"Acultural Theory"; References; Chapter 5: Contemporary Sociological Sources; 5.1 Sources forßtheßRedefinition ofßtheßProblem; 5.1.1 New Hermeneutics andßaßNon-universal Uneven Trajectory; 5.1.2 Some Misunderstandings; 5.1.3 Conditions ofßBelief; 5.2 Sources forßtheßSocio-historical Analysis ofßSecularization; 5.2.1 Social Imaginaries inßGeneral; 5.2.2 Modern Social Imaginaries; 5.2.3 Civil Religion.
5.2.4 Elite-Masses Relationships5.3 Sources forßaßHistory ofßReform; 5.3.1 Axial Religion; 5.3.2 History ofßReform; 5.4 Sources forßContemporary Religion andßtheßSecular/Religious Divide; 5.4.1 Religion Today; 5.4.2 Varieties ofßtheßSecular/Religious Divide; 5.5 A Balance ofßTaylor's Sociological Sources; References; Part III: Taylorean Social Theory; Chapter 6: Interpreting aßSocial Theory; 6.1 Mapping Taylorean Social Theory; 6.1.1 Structure andßHuman Agency; 6.1.2 Social Imaginaries asßLinking theßSocial andßtheßCultural; 6.1.3 Social Change vs. Social Stability.