9780674986916 - A Secular Age by Taylor, Charles (16 results)

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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Tablet Best Book of the YearWinner of a Christianity Today Book AwardOne finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost anybody with an interest in the progress of human society.-The EconomistTaylor 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 TimesA Secular Age is a work of stupendous breadth and erudition.-John Patrick Diggins, New York Times Book ReviewA 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 GuardianVery occasionally there appears a book destined to endure. A Secular Age is such a book.-Edward Skidelsky, Daily TelegraphIt is refreshing to read an inquiry into the condition of religion that is exploratory in its approach.-John Gray, HarpersA Secular Age represents a singular achievement.-Christopher J. Insole, Times Literary SupplementA determinedly brilliant new book.-London Review of Books.

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paperback. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - leichte Beschädigungen, Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - 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 Christendom' of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created. As we see here, today's secular world is characterized not by an absence of religion - although in some societies religious belief and practice have markedly declined - but rather by the continuing multiplication of new options, religious, spiritual, and anti-religious, which individuals and groups seize on in order to make sense of their lives and give shape to their spiritual aspirations. What this means for the world - including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence - is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint Of Harvard University Press in 2018. Paperback ISBN:9780674986916. Collectible item in very fine condition.