Autenticidade e transcendência em Charles Taylor

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...

Paracoccidioidomicose em crianças e adolescentes

Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an important systemic mycosis; it is restricted to Latin America, and Brazil is the most affected country. Children and adolescents account for approximately 5 to 10% of all cases with the acute form of the disease, which afflicts the mononuclear phagocytic system, in particular, lymph nodes and abdominal organs. Involvement of bones and joints has been observed ...

Qohelet and the Marks of Modernity: Reading Ecclesiastes with Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor

The biblical book of Ecclesiastes is often claimed as a harbinger of modernity. In this essay, I compare Ecclesiastes with two overlapping constructions of modernity, taken from Matthew Arnold and Charles Taylor, focusing especially on Taylor’s motifs of inwardness, narrativity, meaninglessness, and ordinary life. I suggest that the likeness to modernity in Ecclesiastes is a complex bundle of e...

Gender and the Charles Taylor Case at the Special Court for Sierra Leone

Microbiol . and Charles P . Woloshuk Joseph E . Flaherty