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082			_a211.6 _bTAY
100			_aTaylor, Charles. _92112
245			_aA secular age
250			_a1st.
260			_aLondon _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press _c2018
300			_ax, 874 p.,
440			_aGifford lectures, 1999. _92113
520			_a"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others." "Taylor offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created." "What this means for the world - including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence - is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless."--Jacket.
650			_aReligion and culture _92114
650			_aSecularism _92014
650			_aChurch history _91646
650			_aLaicism _92115
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