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Charles Taylor writes that identity emerges from the reflection upon, and articulation of ones lived experience. This account of identity precludes psychology from taking a natural science approach to the study of identity, or the self. Psychology has emerged within secular society, and the relation between psychology and religion is examined here. This examination clarifies the role of psychology as an authority on identity. This thesis proposes that the role of psychology is to promote articulacy about the ideal of authenticity. In this way, psychology can address problems arising from individualism in modernity, and can serve as an authority on identity, complementing the other possible authorities on identity present in secular society, including religion.

Thesis (M.A.)--Acadia University, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves nnn-nnn). Also available on the Internet via the World Wide Web.

<p> The dissertation examines an intersection of ethics, epistemology, politics, and religious consciousness in the work of Canadian political theorist Charles Taylor. The goal of the study is to bring to light the central or even unifying role of theism in Taylor's broader philosophical project. More specifically, the dissertation speaks to the constructive moral and anthropological-as opposed to any merely ideological-role that theism plays in Taylor's thought, focusing especially on the conception of transcendence that underwrites his political and ethical theory. A basic claim of the dissertation is that Taylor's conception of transcendence, while remaining attentive to the demands of religious pluralism, has a kenotic shape that gives rise to an ethics that emphasizes enfleshed enactments of agape.</p> / Thesis / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-04-27T13:20:27Z No. of bitstreams: 1 cicerocezariodacostaneto.pdf: 867412 bytes, checksum: f0d5476993614323b9e05ab0705da393 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-05-02T00:59:05Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 cicerocezariodacostaneto.pdf: 867412 bytes, checksum: f0d5476993614323b9e05ab0705da393 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-02T00:59:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 cicerocezariodacostaneto.pdf: 867412 bytes, checksum: f0d5476993614323b9e05ab0705da393 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-26 / CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação oferece um estudo sobre o conceito de esfera pública desenvolvido por Charles Taylor em relação com o que se tem entendido por Teologia Pública no Brasil na atualidade. Através de investigação bibliográfica, o primeiro capítulo faz considerações centrais acerca do pensamento de Taylor sobre esfera pública, concentrado, sobretudo, no quarto capítulo de sua obra magna Uma Era Secular o colocando em diálogo com autores como Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, Nicolás Panotto, Paul Tillich e Rubem Alves. O segundo capítulo situa o debate sobre a Teologia Pública, do qual Rudolf von Sinner é o principal expoente, no contexto brasileiro atual e relaciona o conceito de Teologia Pública trabalhado no Brasil com os desenvolvidos na América do Norte e na África do Sul, bem como com a Teologia da Libertação e o protestantismo histórico. A partir disto, o último capítulo busca mostrar a atualidade, relevância e contribuições da reflexão acerca da Teologia Pública desde o conceito de esfera pública tayloriana para o debate a respeito da relação entre religião e o Estado democrático brasileiro. / This essay offers a study about the concept of public sphere developed by Charles Taylor in relation with what has been understood as Public Theology in Brazil today. Through bibliographic research, the first chapter make central considerations about the thought of Taylor about the public sphere, concentrated mainly in the fourth chapter of his magnum opus A Secular Age, placing it in dialogue with authors such as Jürgen Habermas, Hannah Arendt, Nicolás Panotto, Paul Tillich and Rubem Alves. The second chapter situates the debate about the Public Theology, which Rudolf von Sinner is the leading exponent in the current Brazilian context, and relates the concept of Public Theology worked in Brasil with that developed in North America and South Africa, as well with Liberation Theology and the historic protestantism. Finaly, the last chapter seeks to show the actuality, relevance and contribution of the reflection about Public Theology with the concept taylorian of public sphere for the debate about the relationship between religion and the brazilian democratic State.

Revisions to secularization theory over the past two decades call for reconceptualization of the relation between race and secularity. Structural theories— depicting secularization as the linear, straightforward decline of religion in modernity— commonly explain the tenacity of African-American religiosity as resulting from their marginalization in modern society, a product of educational and economic disparities. However, recent theories address the secular as a historically contingent, incidental phenomenon, what has been called an "accomplishment"; it merits substantive study in itself, carrying the distinct values, beliefs, and understandings of a particular social history. This new framework invites analysis of the racial assumptions embodied in mainstream US secularity as explanation for blacks' religiosity, rather than citing their structural exclusion alone. This research attempts such through ethnographic analysis of black and white young adults' discussion of their religious and spiritual identities, using interviews conducted in Wave 4 of the National Study of Youth and Religion. Finding that most white young adults pursue autonomy from family and community as means of establishing credible identity, and that most black young adults facilitate identity by showing fidelity to them, I argue that these differences demonstrate racialized understandings of human agency, personhood, and social structure that vividly persist in the 21st century United States. Yet those of white young adults are typically treated as normative both in sociological discussions of secularity as well as in broader Western culture, with costly political consequences.

In pursuit of a just political order, Will Kymlicka has defended a liberal conception of multiculturalism. The persuasive appeal of his argument, like that of secular-liberalism more generally, is due to presenting liberalism as a neutral and universal political project. Utilizing Charles Taylor’s genealogy of ‘exclusive humanism’ in A Secular Age, this thesis attempts to re-read Kymlicka in order to make certain theological commitments in his work explicit. Here I argue that Kymlicka, in order to make his conception of multiculturalism plausible, relies on a theologically-thick and controversial humanism operating under secular conditions of belief. By committing himself to a particular conception of the human and specific conditions of belief, Kymlicka’s liberal multiculturalism is rendered provincially incoherent because it fails to treat in a neutral manner certain theological commitments.

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Rev. Diss. Univ. of Jyväskylä, 2003. / Die Originalausgabe der Dissertation erschien 2003 als Bd. 224 der Reihe "Jyväskylä studies in education, psychology and social research" Bibliography: S. 363-382.