Abstract
This article engages with Charles Taylor’s seminal proposal made in A Secular Age regarding the central conditions of premodern life that have made room for our modern, secular world. I demonstrate how and why these conditions are not met in Pentecostalism. I then examine the notion of play in Taylor’s genealogy in order to illuminate more closely the ill-fit of Pentecostalism in the history of the secular. I conclude that Pentecostalism represents a condition of religion which resolves the tension between sacred and secular unaccounted for in Taylor’s work.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 17-36 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies |
Volume | 40 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Religion
- Secularization
- Pentecostalism
- Charles Taylor
- Play
- Romanticism