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Article: Charles Taylor on Our Secular Age (REVIEW ESSAY) - In light of the late Ronald F. Inglehart's 2021 book Religion's Sudden Decline: What's Causing it, and What Comes Next? (Oxford University Press), it is time to revisit Charles Taylor's 2007 875-page book A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) and the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003).

Writing, form of human communication by means of a set of visible marks that are related, by convention, to some particular structural level of language. This definition highlights the fact that writing is in principle the representation of language rather than a direct representation of thought and the fact that spoken language has a number of levels of structure, including sentences, words, syllables, and phonemes (the smallest units of speech used to distinguish one word or morpheme from another), any one of which a writing system can “map onto” or represent. Indeed, the history of wri...

Orientation Foundational polarities between paganism and monotheism What is the difference between a universe and a cosmos? Is the world eternal where something cannot come out of nothing or does the world have a beginning? What is primary, stasis or change? What might the difference between verbs and nouns have to do high paganism and

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