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A secular age / Charles Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Charles, 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secularism.
- Religion and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith 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 (p. [779]-851) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674976221
- 0674976223
- 9780674044289
- 0674044282
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