- 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
A Secular Age
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Publication Date: 09/17/2018
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Awards & Accolades
- 2008 Christianity Today Book Award for History/Biography
- 2008 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- A New York Times Notable Book of 2008
- A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2008
- A Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year
- A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2007
- Charles Taylor Is Winner of the 2016 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture • 2008 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy • 2007 Templeton Prize
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