UPCOMING EVENTS
February 13, 2012
Equality, Freedom, & Religion
February 15, 2012
Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2011 Report Launch and 2012 Call for Applications
March 1, 2012
Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right
April 11, 2012
Religious Freedom and Equality: Emerging Conflicts in North America and Europe
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RELATED PROGRAM
Globalization, Religions, and the Secular
How does globalization intersect with the resurgence of public religion? To what extent do we live in a post-secular world? The Globalization, Religions, and the Secular program brings together lea...
RELATED PROJECT
The Berkley Center Lectures
The Berkley Center Lectures bring global thought leaders to campus for presentations on cutting-edge topics at the intersection of religion, culture and politics. The formal program is flanked by i...RELATED SUB-PROJECT
Charles Taylor on Narratives of Secularity, October 2008
Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill UniversityWorld-renowned philosopher Charles Taylor explored "Narratives of Secularity" in the 2008 Berkley Center Le...
RECENT MEDIA
CENTER NEWS
February 8, 2012Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum Signs Religious Freedom Pledge Drafted by RFP Director Tom Farr
February 8, 2012
Jose Casanova Giving Ensign Lecture at Yale
February 7, 2012
Katherine Marshall at the UN for World Interfaith Harmony Week
February 6, 2012
Fitchburg State University Invites RFP Scholar Monica Duffy Toft for International Studies Speaker Series
February 3, 2012
Katherine Marshall Blogs: Women at Risk in an Unequal World
February 2, 2012
Research on Forgiveness Begins in Uganda for RFP Scholar Daniel Philpott
February 1, 2012
Call for Applications: Education and Social Justice International Summer Research Fellowships 2012
February 1, 2012
Catholic News Agency Quotes RFP Director Tom Farr on the Obama Administration's Stance Towards Religious Freedom
January 30, 2012
Taking Women and Religion Seriously: Intersecting Paths
January 27, 2012
Between Culture and Religion: The Case of Female Genital Cutting
January 23, 2012
RFP Scholar Will Inboden on the Obama Administration and Religious Freedom
January 10, 2012
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide
January 9, 2012
RFP Director Tom Farr Quoted in The Globe and Mail Editorial
October 21, 2008
2008 Berkley Center Lectures with Charles Taylor: Master Narratives of Modernity
World-renowned philosopher Charles Taylor explored the master narratives of modernity -- sound in some respects, but questionable in others -- that provide the matrix within which secularization theories have been advanced. This was the first of the 2008 Berkley Center lectures on the topic: Narratives of Secularity. The lectures surveyed the master narratives which have underpinned secularization, explored more adequate ones, and hazarded a picture of the present predicament of religion and spirituality in the West.
Featuring
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor is one of the world's leading scholars working at the intersection of religion, secularity, and modernity. A philosopher open to other humanities and social science disciplines, he has authored many path-breaking books, including The Sources of the Self (1992), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (1994) and, most recently, A Secular Age (2007). Taylor was for many years Professor for Political Sciences and Philosophy at the McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where he now serves as professor emeritus. He was awarded the Templeton Prize in 2007.
