immanent frame
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The immanent frame is Charles Taylor’s term for the modern social and intellectual context in which people typically interpret meaning, morality, and experience within a natural, this-worldly order rather than in reference to a transcendent realm.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
concept in religious studies
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philosophical concept ⓘ sociological concept ⓘ |
| articulatedIn | philosophical narrative rather than formal theory ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Canadian philosophy
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Catholic intellectual tradition ⓘ |
| characterizedBy |
buffered self
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exclusion of transcendence as default assumption ⓘ naturalistic understanding of reality ⓘ plurality of worldviews ⓘ possibility of belief and unbelief ⓘ this-worldly focus ⓘ |
| coinedBy | Charles Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concerns |
interpretation of human experience
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interpretation of meaning ⓘ interpretation of morality ⓘ |
| contrastedWith | transcendent frame ⓘ |
| defines | social conditions under which belief is held ⓘ |
| describedIn | A Secular Age NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| embeddedIn |
modern intellectual context
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modern social context ⓘ |
| hasContext |
Western modern social imaginary
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modernity ⓘ secularity ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced |
contemporary debates on secularism
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discussions of post-secular society ⓘ theories of multiple modernities ⓘ |
| implies |
belief is one option among many
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religious belief is no longer axiomatic ⓘ transcendence is contestable ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
disenchantment
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exclusive humanism ⓘ modern subjectivity ⓘ secular age ⓘ social imaginary ⓘ |
| relatesTo |
conditions of belief
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modern moral order ⓘ religious belief in modernity ⓘ secularization ⓘ |
| timePeriodDescribed | roughly from the 18th century to the present ⓘ |
| usedIn |
cultural theory
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philosophy of religion ⓘ sociology of religion ⓘ theology ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
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