A Redemptive Economy: Corpus Christi Pageant Cycles as Liturgical Relativization of Secular Time by Gaelan Gilbert, San Diego State University
Charles Taylor has recently argued that in modern societies “we tend to see our lives exclusively within the horizontal flow of secular time,â€[1] to the point that time “has become a container, indifferent to what fills it.â€[2] What Taylor means by “secular time†pertains to both contemporary American and European culture and, as globalization continues, other parts of the world, as will be explained below, as well as the culture of the late-medieval period in Europe.