A secular age
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Book
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x, 874 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 779-851) and index.
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"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. 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 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." "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."--Jacket.
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Taylor, C. (2007). A secular age . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Charles, 1931-. 2007. A Secular Age. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Charles, 1931-. A Secular Age Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
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