Abstract
AbstractConnecting the historiography of British secularization to two theoretical developments known as the material and temporal turns, this chapter shifts the focus from conceptualizations of religion and its negation, attending instead to the implicit assumptions about the nature of time underpinning specific modern socio-technological networks. Starting from Charles Taylor’s association of secularity with the temporal dimension of modern social imaginaries, the chapter argues that scholars of secular time tend to make three mistakes: conflating secular time with other kinds of time; assuming too much about the global reach and power of secular time based on the presence of certain technologies; and failing to operationalize the concept in specific case studies. This book offers a way to avoid repeating these mistakes and offers examples of how historians can operationalize secular time.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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