A Secular Age
A Secular Age
Author: Taylor, Charles
Humanities
Published on 28 September 2018 by HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS (The Belknap Press) in the United States.
Paperback / softback | 896 pages
236 x 181 x 41 | 1174g
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
If you cannot find the book you're after, please click here.
View full details