{"product_id":"a-secular-age-9780674026766","title":"A Secular Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 believer, is only one human possibility among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaylor, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, 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. As we see here, today's secular world is characterized not by an absence of religion--although in some societies religious belief and practice have markedly declined--but rather by the continuing multiplication of new options, religious, spiritual, and anti-religious, which individuals and groups seize on in order to make sense of their lives and give shape to their spiritual aspirations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674026766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 874\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.64w x 2.08d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Christianity Today Book Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/11\/2007 pg. 54\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2007 pg. 597\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2007 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2007 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly Best Books\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/05\/2007 pg. 34\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/11\/2008 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/16\/2007 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/23\/2007 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2008 pg. 1177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2008 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/16\/2008 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/03\/2011 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Charles Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36639826411676,"sku":"9780674026766","price":52.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_15202b46-8de6-4726-ba75-6f8ee57b57f8.jpg?v=1603850693","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-secular-age-9780674026766","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}