A Secular Age
Author(s): Charles Taylor
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Tablet Best Book of the Year
Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award
"One finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost anybody with an interest in the progress of human society."
--The Economist
"Taylor takes on the broad phenomenon of secularization in its full complexity... A] voluminous, impressively researched and often fascinating social and intellectual history."
--Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times
"A Secular Age is a work of stupendous breadth and erudition."
--John Patrick Diggins, New York Times Book Review
"A culminating dispatch from the philosophical frontlines. It is at once encyclopedic and incisive, a sweeping overview that is no less analytically rigorous for its breadth."
--Steven Hayward, Cleveland Plain Dealer
" A] thumping great volume."
--Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian
"Very occasionally there appears a book destined to endure. A Secular Age is such a book."
--Edward Skidelsky, Daily Telegraph
"It is refreshing to read an inquiry into the condition of religion that is exploratory in its approach."
--John Gray, Harper's
"A Secular Age represents a singular achievement."
--Christopher J. Insole, Times Literary Supplement
"A determinedly brilliant new book."
--London Review of Books
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Harvard University Press
- : The Belknap Press
- : 0.666
- : 01 August 2018
- : 1.5 Centimeters X 15 Centimeters X 23.5 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Charles Taylor
- : Paperback
- : 1809
- : English
- : 211/.6
- : 896