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After nearly five hundred pages, A Secular Age readers are presented with the ethical dilemma of the modern social imaginary and, surprise, the dilemma of modernity is sexual. The reader might wonder...
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Discussions of the secular can often be peculiarly remote. Whenever secularism is imagined as unbelief, or political neutrality, or an empty social space to be filled up with religious pluralism, it...
View ArticleThe ruse of “secular humanism”
Discussions of the secular can often be peculiarly remote. Whenever secularism is imagined as unbelief, or political neutrality, or an empty social space to be filled up with religious pluralism, it...
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Sex and the subject of religion
The current campaign within the Archdiocese of New York to canonize the radical activist Dorothy Day (1897-1980) offers a good example of what Elizabeth Povinelli, writing here on December 13 (“Can Sex...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Practicing sex, practicing democracy
Why is it that sex is such a central part of American political life anyway? Why, when The New York Times reported on the influence of “values” voters on the 2004 Presidential election, did the Times...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marriage plots
In his Commonweal essay, “Sex & Christianity: How has the Moral Landscape Changed?” Charles Taylor works to create a space for a Catholic sexual ethic that does not make “a certain kind of purity a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sex & aggression
Alongside Taylor’s exploration of the conditions secularism—and therefore also of belief—in Euroatlantic late modernity, there is a surprisingly unreconstructed Christian faith that comes out when he...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Can sex be a minor form of spitting?
After nearly five hundred pages, A Secular Age readers are presented with the ethical dilemma of the modern social imaginary and, surprise, the dilemma of modernity is sexual. The reader might wonder...
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