Time exposure : the personal experience of time in secular societies /

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Author / Creator:	Fenn, Richard K.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 166 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. Time -- Social aspects -- History. Secularization -- History. Secularization. Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. Time -- Social aspects. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11141057

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ISBN:	1423745647 9781423745648 1280481234 9781280481239 9786610481231 6610481237 0195139534 9780195139532
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This work looks at the way in which we experience time in secular societies. In Fenn's view, secularization is virtually synonymous with individualism. Although it is often the Church that decries modern individualism, he says, it is in fact the Church that created it, by its demystification of the universe, its insistence on individual self-discipline, and its intensification of individual responsibility for the use of time. The result was a profound change in the way in which time is experienced by the individual. Fenn offers an exploration of our modern experience of time, as expressed in such phrases as "wasting time" and "making up for lost time". He is particularly interested in the idea and experience of waiting, which he believes to be a defining characteristic of modern life.
Other form:	Print version: Fenn, Richard K. Time exposure. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 0195139534

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A secular society, according to Fenn (Princeton Theological Seminary), is self-organizing and self-referential. That means it is thrown on its own nonprovidential, nontranscendent resources when it comes to making meaning of life and its vicissitudes. In the religion-fatigued West, the passing of time marks us and holds us to its secular standards. According to Fenn, that is the inevitable outcome of Christianity's own internal logic. The book is interesting, nuanced, perhaps a little obscure. It has the feel of a phenomenological study--what would it be like to find oneself in a secular world?--yet there are no references to the important studies of temporality and time consciousness in that tradition. Recommended only for upper-division undergraduates, graduates, and researchers/faculty. R. Severson Marylhurst University

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Time exposure : the personal experience of time in secular societies /

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