Secular Age

Name: Secular Age
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ISBN: 9780674026766

ISBN-10: 0674026764

ISBN-13: 9780674026766

Edition: 2007

Authors: Charles C. Taylor

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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. Taylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western…

Book details

List price: $62.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/20/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 896
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.53" long x 1.93" tall
Weight: 3.278
Language: English




The bulwarks of belief



The rise of the disciplinary society



The great disembedding



Modern social imaginaries



The spectre of idealism



Providential deism



The impersonal order



The malaises of modernity



The dark abyss of time



The expanding universe of unbelief



Nineteenth-century trajectories



The age of mobilization



The age of authenticity



Religion today



The immanent frame



Cross pressures



Dilemmas 1



Dilemmas 2



Unquiet frontiers of modernity



Conversions


Epilogue : the many stories