Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Tablet Best 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."
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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 Age is 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 Age is 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,
Harper's "
A Secular Age represents a singular achievement."
--Christopher J. Insole,
Times Literary Supplement "A determinedly brilliant new book."
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London Review of Books
