A Secular Age

Charles Taylor

  • Charles Taylor is Winner of the 2007 Templeton Prize
  • Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007 Selection
  • 2008 Christianity Today Book Award, History/Biography
  • A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
  • A Tablet Best Book of the Year
  • 2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award given by The Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
  • A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2008

Preface

Introduction

Part I: The Work of Reform

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

Part II: The Turning Point

6. Providential Deism

7. The Impersonal Order

Part III: The Nova Effect

8. The Malaises of Modernity

9. The Dark Abyss of Time

10. The Expanding Universe of Unbelief

11. Nineteenth-Century Trajectories

Part IV: Narratives of Secularization

12. The Age of Mobilization

13. The Age of Authenticity

14. Religion Today

Part V: Conditions of Belief

15. The Immanent Frame

16. Cross Pressures

17. Dilemmas 1

18. Dilemmas 2

19. Unquiet Frontiers of Modernity

20. Conversions

Epilogue: The Many Stories

Notes

Index

  • Cover: A Secular Age
  • A photo of the author

Photo by Karen Marshall

Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill University.