A Secular Age

A Secular Age
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 889
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ISBN-10 : 9780674986916
ISBN-13 : 0674986911
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Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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


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