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What Does It Means to Live in a Secular Age - Coggle Diagram
What Does It Means to Live in a Secular Age
Peter Berger
Externalization
: You come to the world and you build things
Objectivation
: You were born with a lot of things that already exist.
Example: San Francisco. You are born into the world that San Francisco is exist already before you are born.
Internalixation
: You are born into the world as a prodct. You learn to play a role
Example: Son, daughter, student, ctitzen, culture. You are imprinting the objectivity world into your identity
People are born into a world that is already build and full of religon. Religion is in every part of the society for example economic, political, culture.
To live in a secular age for Berger is to live in a world that did not have religion build in the world and other extraordinary forces.
Charles Taylor
Common institution and practice
Church is separate from political structure
Religious freedom in the United States
The constitution is not based on anyone's religion
Secular Age
: An age in which a belief in God or to be religious is one human possibility among others.
-God is just one of the possible possibilities among others
Even people do not believe in god, they can still be part of the other domain, the culture, political and economic and god is one choice among many choices.
People use to believe in god or are religious by default.
Ex. 1500 it is an extraordinary decision to say they are atheists, people are born into a society that atheists is not an option
Not believing is actually the first mode of living and then believing is something they come to write by way of persuasion
You need to be convinced to believe rather than convinced to not believe.
Similarity between Peter Berger and Charles Taylor
religion is separate from political. economic, culture and etc.