A secular age / Charles Taylor.

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

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Secularism.

Religion and culture.

1. The bulwarks of belief

2. The rise of the disciplinary society

3. The great disembedding

4. Modern social imaginaries

5. The spectre of idealism

6. Providential deism

7. The impersonal order

8. The malaises of modernity

9. The dark abyss of time

10. The expanding universe of unbelief

11. Nineteenth-century trajectories

12. The age of mobilization

13. The age of authenticity

14. Religion today

15. The immanent frame

16. Cross pressures

17. Dilemmas 1

18. Dilemmas 2

19. Unquiet frontiers of modernity

20. Conversions.

In the last few centuries, the place of religion in Western societies has changed profoundly. Charles Taylor offers a historical perspective on these changes, and considers their meaning and effect.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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x, 874 p. ; 24 cm