Figurations of Modernity

Fluid Figurations: Images of the Divine in the Writings of Gertrude of Helfta, Catherine of Siena, and Teresa of Avila

The Impacts of Modernity upon Religiosity: A Critical Study of Charles Taylor

The relationship between modernity and religiosity has been in the center of many scholarly debates. Among others, Charles Taylor presents in his works a general picture of the elements that shape the secular age. He starts with the question why people used to be faithful, while they are not easily so in our age. To answer, he explores the past five centuries in the West and coins some terms to...

Analyzing critical traditionalism in Shariati's thinking

Shariati's intellectual flow is accepted by various readings such as traditionalism, postmodern readings, modernism and radical approach because his thought has the capacity to accept all these readings. He was a critique of tradition and at the same time criticized modernity, and therefore he may have considered as a traditionalist or a supporter of modernity. But deeper study of Shariati's wo...

Interpreted Modernity Weber and Taylor on Values and Modernity

The writings of Weber and Taylor have some strong affinities. Both start from the anthropological idea that man evaluates his position in the world and constitutes the social world by values. Their analyses of values aim at an understanding of those intersubjective meanings that have constituted western modernity. But, at the same time, their anthropological starting point leads to different in...

Third Wave of Modernity and Two Intellectual Interpretations by Reza Davari Ardakani and Abdulkarim Soroush after Islamic Revolution

This article considers the relation between the third wave of modernity -according to Leo Straus' theory- and the intellectual discourse after Islamic revolution. After Islamic revolution and faced with third wave of modernity, intellectuals offered special interpretations. Intellectual interpretations by Reza Davari Ardakani and Abdulkarim Soroush, as prominent representatives for the third wa...