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SIGNS OF THE TIMES

SIGNS OF THE TIMESCanterburyMarch 2014TWO LINES OF ENQUIRYWhere are we today, culturally, socially, historically ?

How might the church respond ?A SECULAR AGESecularism as an Enlightenment ideologySecularisation as a socio-historical conceptThe collapse or the radically questioning of the aegis of the secular

epistemological conditions MODERNITY: Belief as a weak and inadequate form of knowledge

POSTMODERNITY: the structures of what we believe and what makes a belief believable have changed

mythological imagination

Critiques of myth: Adorno, Horkheimer, Barthes & Midgley

New investments in mythological thinking

Lana Del Ray Born to Die

New visibility of religionSecular confidence a1960s to mid-1970s phenomenon12 million investment into the Religion and Society Research Programme New range of print and on-line resources for sociology of religion

RESPONSE FROM CHURCHComing to terms with its internalization of secularism

Institutions which are networked and highly flexible about membership

The countering of theological illiteracy