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It is an attempt to follow the development of the modern Western secular age, which at the same time is an attempt to define what we mean by this term. It is a basic thesis of the book that these two questions: "What is secularity?" and "How did it develop?" can only be properly addressed together. In the course of it, I challenge what for a long time was the dominant "master narrative" of secularization, as the inevitable decline of religion with advancing modernity; and this, of course, involves a rather different understanding of the place of religion and spirituality today.
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Secular Age (07 Edition) by Charles Taylor
lmvalenciam, October 20, 2007
It is an attempt to follow the development of the modern Western secular age, which at the same time is an attempt to define what we mean by this term. It is a basic thesis of the book that these two questions: "What is secularity?" and "How did it develop?" can only be properly addressed together. In the course of it, I challenge what for a long time was the dominant "master narrative" of secularization, as the inevitable decline of religion with advancing modernity; and this, of course, involves a rather different understanding of the place of religion and spirituality today.(2 of 2 readers found this comment helpful)