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Author Fenn, Richard K.

Title Time exposure : the personal experience of time in secular societies / Richard K. Fenn.

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 166 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-160) and index.
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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.
Subject Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines.
Time -- Social aspects -- History.
Secularization -- History.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
Secularization. (OCoLC)fst01110738
Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines. (OCoLC)fst01151062
Time -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01151066
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Fenn, Richard K. Time exposure. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001 0195139534 (DLC) 00020716 (OCoLC)43656911
ISBN 1423745647 (electronic bk.)
9781423745648 (electronic bk.)
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