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Faith in a Fashionable Age:

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Faith in a Fashionable Age:

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Abraham Kuyper and Charles Taylor on the Secular Nexus Between Mode and Modernité

Robert Stephen Covolo

Leiden

Brill

This article examines two Christian thinkers who detect a close relationship between fashion and secularity. First, the article discusses Reformed theologian Abraham Kuyper's suspicion that the French fashion of his day carried political, cultural and social capacities that reinforced secularization in nineteenth century Holland. Having considered Kuyper's perspective, the article turns to contemporary Roman Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor's understanding of fashion. Drawing on Taylor's magnum opus, A Secular Age, the article traces fashion's complicit relationship with secularity as a 'fourth axis of simultaneity'. In spite of their very different historical, intellectual and confessional contexts, Kuyper and Taylor share a similar analysis of the secularizing power of fashion, thereby pointing a way forward for those seeking to understand the relationship between mode and modernité. This article examines two Christian thinkers who detect a close relationship between fashion and secularity. First, the article discusses Reformed theologian Abraham Kuyper's suspicion that the French fashion of his day carried political, cultural and social capacities that reinforced secularization in nineteenth century Holland. Having considered Kuyper's perspective, the article turns to contemporary Roman Catholic philosopher Charles Taylor's understanding of fashion. Drawing on Taylor's magnum opus, A Secular Age, the article traces fashion's complicit relationship with secularity as a 'fourth axis of simultaneity'. In spite of their very different historical, intellectual and confessional contexts, Kuyper and Taylor share a similar analysis of the secularizing power of fashion, thereby pointing a way forward for those seeking to understand the relationship between mode and modernité.

2013

297-314

International Journal of Public Theology

7/3

1569-7320

Abraham Kuyper

Charles Taylor

fashion

secularity

Robert Stephen Covolo

10.1163/15697320-12341294

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