Subtraction stories — Accounts that explain “the secular” as merely the subtraction of religious belief, as if the secular is what’s left over after we subtract superstition. In contrast, Taylor emphasizes that the secular is produced, not just distilled.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

I'm not psychic myself.

I want to play more festivals.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.

When you realize there's so much you can't control, you get pretty stingy with what you can.

The truth sustains me.

Nobody in Rugby should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Here at Carolina, our World Cup opponents marked their calendars. Obviously the other nations wanted to win every game, but a big upset over the U.S. was something we knew other teams would cherish.

We are playing at home, with full stadiums and passionate fans. It will be very special moment for me.

'Calcutta is a pot of honey' means that in the first half of the nineteenth century, before the society became truly Victorian in feeling and tone, Bengal was a place to make money. The governor-generals returned to England rich men. It was a bountiful, lush, prosperous, easy place to make a fortune - in coal, in jute, and particularly cloth.

Worrisome. It's romanticism, and it's dangerous to have children and students on the street.

For years, Suzanne Somers has been a pioneer when it comes to alternative medical treatments.

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Win or lose, star or not, you wait for your car with everyone else, and waiting for your car is a drag.

I seek solutions, not battles.

I have so many bras. I have so many, and then they get lost, and I look for a simple nude one to wear, and I can't find one because there's, like, lace and crazy colors that I never wear.

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

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