A Secular Age by Taylor, Charles

Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 978-0-674-02676-6 [978-0-674-02676-6] 2007. (Hardcover) 874pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Black cloth with gilt lettering. Notes, index. "What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others". Time Period Modern Day. (Religion, God, Philosophy, Religion, Secular Society, Societies, Western Civilization).