Multiple simultaneous temporalities complicate any simple model of secular time.

Evidence

But in addition to complex space we need to think also of heterogeneous time: of embodied practices rooted in multiple traditions, of the differences between horizons of expectation and spaces of experience—differences that continually dislocate the present from the past, the world experienced from the world anticipated, and call for their revision and reconnection. These simultaneous temporalities embrace both individuals and groups in complexities that imply more than a simple process of secular time. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 875

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the soundscape concept of simultaneous acoustic layers in my Schafer reading — signal, keynote, and ambient layers as a model for temporal pluralism. — connects to: Buddhist time is cyclical individuation while the West makes generalized linear History — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 285; Even systems theory lacks adequate concepts to analyze cross-system temporal mismatch. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 201; Sacred and profane time coexist, connected only at ritual nodal points. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 99
• DEEPTHINKING: The pair of complex space and heterogeneous time as joint framework for analyzing tradition is genuinely generative; resists one-line summary.