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 ⓘ
philosophical concept ⓘ
sociological concept ⓘ
articulatedIn philosophical narrative rather than formal theory ⓘ
associatedWith Canadian philosophy ⓘ
Catholic intellectual tradition ⓘ
characterizedBy buffered self ⓘ
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 ⓘ
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 ⓘ
modern social context ⓘ
hasContext Western modern social imaginary ⓘ
modernity ⓘ
secularity ⓘ
hasInfluenced contemporary debates on secularism ⓘ
discussions of post-secular society ⓘ
theories of multiple modernities ⓘ
implies belief is one option among many ⓘ
religious belief is no longer axiomatic ⓘ
transcendence is contestable ⓘ
languageOfOrigin English ⓘ
relatedConcept disenchantment ⓘ
exclusive humanism ⓘ
modern subjectivity ⓘ
secular age ⓘ
social imaginary ⓘ
relatesTo conditions of belief ⓘ
modern moral order ⓘ
religious belief in modernity ⓘ
secularization ⓘ
timePeriodDescribed roughly from the 18th century to the present ⓘ
usedIn cultural theory ⓘ
philosophy of religion ⓘ
sociology of religion ⓘ
theology ⓘ

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A Secular Age → introducesConcept → immanent frame ⓘ