GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Templeton Prize, Public Culture, William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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33: the return of enchantment: before and since the. Max weber and the disenchantment of the modern mind . Secularization thesis: max weber not optimistic about a future without religion, dialectic of enlightenment (1944) a powerful critique of the violence within the enlightenment project. Modernity as dystopia: religious exuberance of christianity and islam remains in the developing world. World"s largest pentecostal group of > 70 million is in mainland china. Charles taylor canadian political philosopher at mcgill wins 2007 templeton prize to study the need for modernism to become reacquainted with religious belief. Pushback against enlightenment rationality as a complete agenda: reality is not like a machine after all . Deficit of meaning in the machine-age aesthetic and the public culture of consumption. New rise of myth, sci-fi and the spiritual in western art and popular culture: post-modern architecture and its goal to build back meaning into the built environment, movies: star wars, harry potter, lord of the rings, narnia.
