A Secular age [Audiobook] download free by Charles Taylor

Listen audiobook: A Secular age
Author: Charles Taylor
Release date: 2010/12/4
Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Language: English
Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
ISBN: 9780674026766
Rating: 9.4 of 10
Votes: 126
Review by: Oliver Heath
Review rating: 8.5 of 10
Review Date: 2018/10/23
Duration: 11H25M3S in 256 kbps (179.2 MB)
Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-18
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Total pages original book: 896
Includes a PDF summary of 72 pages
Duration of the summary (audio): 52M18S (14.4 MB)
Description or summary of the audiobook: 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. In what will be a defining book for our time, 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, long one of our most insightful thinkers on such questions, 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. As we see here, today's secular world is characterized not by an absence of religion-although in some societies religious belief and practice have markedly declined-but rather by the continuing multiplication of new options, religious, spiritual, and anti-religious, which individuals and groups seize on in order to make sense of their lives and give shape to their spiritual aspirations.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.
Other categories, genre or collection: Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, History Of Western Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion
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Format: Hardback
Approximate value: 59.74 USD
Dimensions: 162x235x52.83mm
Weight: 1,315.42g
Printed by: The Belknap Press
Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States