A great deal of recent scholarship in the West has given attention to the subject of ‘secularization’and what this precisely means in a very largely, traditionally Christian society. Following Charles Taylor’s major work of 2007,A Secular Age, which perceives secularity in the West as characterized not so much by the absence of religion as by the continuing multiplication of new options, religious, spiritual and sometimes anti-religious, this paper will consider the contribution of creative literature to these on-going religious debates, and the relevance of this contribution to the expansion of these debates onto the map of world religious and in the newer Christian communities beyond the traditional boundaries of ‘Western Christendom.’
目前西方大量的研究将关注点投向了“世俗化”这一主题，以及这一现象在大多数的传统的基督教社会中的意义所在。查尔斯.泰勒2007年的主要著作《一个世俗的时代》认为西方的世俗化是不断地在提供更多的选项：宗教的，精神的，有时是反宗教，而并非宗教的缺席。本论文将主要继续探讨创造性文学对于这些正在进行的宗教争论有怎样的贡献，同时也要考察创造性文学对于世界宗教地图之争的拓展有怎样的贡献，以及超越了“西方基督教王国”的传统界限的更新的基督教社区的拓展所做的贡献。
