Secularist humanism, law and religion in Ian McEwan’s the children act
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- dc.contributor.author Ungureanu, Camil
- dc.date.accessioned 2022-11-08T08:37:18Z
- dc.date.available 2022-11-08T08:37:18Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.description.abstract Ian McEwan’s The Children Act focuses on a real-life conflict between religion and children’s rights in a pluralist society. By drawing on Charles Taylor’s work on religion in the “secular age”, I argue that McEwan’s narrative is ultimately built on secularist assumptions that devalue religious experience. McEwan’s approach aims to build a bridge between literary imagination and scientific rationality: religion is, from this perspective, reducible to a “fable” and an authority structure incongruous with legal rationality and the quest for meaning in the modern-secular society. In The Children Act, art substitutes religion and its aspiration to transcendence: music in particular is a universal idiom that can overcome barriers of communication and provides “ecstatic” experiences in a godless world.
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- dc.identifier.citation Ungureanu C. Secularist humanism, law and religion in Ian McEwan’s the children act. Religions. 2021 Jun 25;12(7):468. DOI: 10.3390/rel12070468
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel12070468
- dc.identifier.issn 2077-1444
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/54754
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher MDPI
- dc.relation.ispartof Religions. 2021 Jun 25;12(7):468
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- dc.subject.keyword Religion
- dc.subject.keyword Law
- dc.subject.keyword Secularist humanism
- dc.subject.keyword Charles Taylor
- dc.subject.keyword Immanent frame
- dc.subject.keyword Jehovah’s Witnesses
- dc.title Secularist humanism, law and religion in Ian McEwan’s the children act
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