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A Secular Age is a book written by the philosopher Charles Taylor which was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press on the basis of Taylor's earlier Gifford Lectures (Edinburgh 1998–99). The noted sociologist Robert Bellah [1] has referred to A Secular Age as "one of the most important books to be written in my lifetime." [2]
A wide-ranging interview with Charles Taylor, including Taylor's thoughts about his own intellectual development. An Interview with Charles Taylor Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3; The Immanent Frame a blog with posts by Taylor, Robert Bellah, and others concerning Taylor's book A Secular Age; Text of Taylor's essay "Overcoming Epistemology"
Pages in category "Books by Charles Taylor (philosopher)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. ... A Secular Age; Sources of the Self
Charles Taylor's A Secular Age is also frequently invoked as describing the postsecular, [14] though there is sometimes disagreement over what each author meant with the term. Particularly contested is the question of whether "postsecular" refers to a new sociological phenomenon or to a new awareness of an existing phenomenon—that is, whether ...
Charles Taylor: 1952: Political philosophy: FRSC, Rhodes Scholar, Professor at McGill. The first president of the Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. A Secular Age HUP 2007 [1]: 533 Alan Montefiore: 1948: European philosophy: Fellow. A Modern Introduction to Moral PhilosophyRoutledge 1958 [1]: 381 John Lucas: 1947: Philosophy of mathematics
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Charles Taylor in A Secular Age (2007) challenges what he calls 'the subtraction thesis' – that science leads to religion being subtracted from more and more areas of life. Proponents of "secularization theory" demonstrate widespread declines in the prevalence of religious belief throughout the West, particularly in Europe.
Philosopher Charles Taylor in his 2007 book A Secular Age understands and discusses the secularity of Western societies less in terms of how much of a role religion plays in public life (secularity 1), or how religious a society's individual members are (secularity 2), than as a "backdrop" or social context in which religious belief is no ...