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 beli.
Belknap Press A secular age, hardcover/charles taylor
