Secular Age

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year \n A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year \n A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year \n A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year \n A Tablet Best Book of the Year \n Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award \n \n \n One finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost anybody with an interest in the progress of human society. \n -The Economist \n \n Taylor takes on the broad phenomenon of secularization in its full complexity...[A] voluminous, impressively researched and often fascinating social and intellectual history. \n -Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times \n \n A Secular Age is a work of stupendous breadth and erudition. \n -John Patrick Diggins, New York Times Book Review \n \n 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. \n -Steven Hayward, Cleveland Plain Dealer \n \n [A] thumping great volume. \n -Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian \n \n Very occasionally there appears a book destined to endure. A Secular Age is such a book. \n -Edward Skidelsky, Daily Telegraph \n \n It is refreshing to read an inquiry into the condition of religion that is exploratory in its approach. \n -John Gray, Harper's \n \n A Secular Age represents a singular achievement. \n -Christopher J. Insole, Times Literary Supplement \n \n A determinedly brilliant new book. \n -London Review of Books \n