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Online Zoom Webinar
The Myth of Disenchantment and the Power of the Sacred
Friday April 23, 2021
10.00am-11.30am (Washington
DC Time)
A Lecture by Hans Joas
(video
recording)
Respondents
 
Charles Taylor
José Casanova
Contempoary criticisms
of the secularization thesis make it necessary to pose the
question: Does modern European secularization truly have a long
prehistory in a process of “disenchantment," as Max Weber
famously maintained? An exploration of this line of inquiry
helps illuminate a number of significant difficulties with
Weber’s narrative of disenchantment. It also opens
up the path to an alternative sociological account of religion
and self-transcendence in the modern age. This
theory of the interplay of moral universalism and “the power of
the sacred” reveals both perils and opportunities for our
present times.
Co-sponsored by CUA McLean Center for the Study of Culture and
Values, Catholic University School of Theology and Religious
Studies, Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies;
Oxford University Press
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