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A secular age / Charles Taylor.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Charles, 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secularism.
- Religion and culture.
- Physical Description:
- x, 874 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Taylor takes up the question of what 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.
- Contents:
- The work of reform
- The bulwarks of belief
- The rise of the disciplinary society
- The great disembedding
- Modern social imaginaries
- The spectre of idealism
- The turning point
- Providential deism
- The impersonal order
- The nova effect
- The malaises of modernity
- The dark abyss of time
- The expanding universe of unbelief
- Nineteenth-century trajectories
- Narratives of secularization
- The age of mobilization
- The age of authenticity
- Religion today
- Conditions of belief
- The immanent frame
- Cross pressures
- Dilemmas 1
- Dilemmas 2
- Unquiet frontiers of modernity
- Conversions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [779]-851) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674026766
- 0674026764
- OCLC:
- 85766076
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