Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age

by Michael Warner

Book Overview

"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age?" This apparently simple question opens into the massive, provocative, and complex A Secular Age, where Charles Taylor positions secularism as a defining feature of the modern world, not the mere absence of religion, and casts light on the experience of transcendence that scientistic explanations of the world tend to neglect.

In Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072413
• ISBN13: 9780674072411
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"