Secular Age [Paperback]

ANew York TimesNotable Book of the Year
ATimes Literary SupplementBook of the Year
AGlobe and MailBest Book of the Year
APublishers WeeklyBest Book of the Year
ATabletBest Book of the Year
Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award

One finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost anybody with an interest in the progress of human society.
The Economist

Taylor takes on the broad phenomenon of secularization in its full complexity&[A] voluminous, impressively researched and often fascinating social and intellectual history.
Jack Miles,Los Angeles Times

A Secular Ageis a work of stupendous breadth and erudition.
John Patrick Diggins,New York Times Book Review

A culminating dispatch from the philosophical frontlines. It is at once encyclopedic and incisive, a sweeping overview that is no less analytically rigorous for its breadth.
Steven Hayward,Cleveland Plain Dealer

[A] thumping great volume.
Stuart Jeffries,The Guardian

Very occasionally there appears a book destined to endure.A Secular Ageis such a book.
Edward Skidelsky,Daily Telegraph

It is refreshing to read an inquiry into the condition of religion that is exploratory in its approach.
John Gray,Harpers

A Secular Agerepresents a singular achievement.
Christopher J. Insole,Times Literary Supplement

A determinedly brilliant new book.
London Review of Books

Taylor's book is a major and highly original contribution to the debates on secularization that have been ongoing for the past century. There is no book remotely like it.This is Charles Taylor's breakthrough book, a book of really major importance, because he succeeds in recasting the whole debate about secularism. This is one of the most important books written in my lifetime. I am tempted to say the most importanl³+