A Secular Age

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year

A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

A Tablet Best Book of the Year

Winner of a Christianity Today Book Award

"One finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost anybody with an interest in the progress of human society."

--The Economist

"Taylor takes on the broad phenomenon of secularization in its full complexity... A] voluminous, impressively researched and often fascinating social and intellectual history."

--Jack Miles, Los Angeles Times

"A Secular Age is a work of stupendous breadth and erudition."

--John Patrick Diggins, New York Times Book Review

"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."

--Steven Hayward, Cleveland Plain Dealer

" A] thumping great volume."

--Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian

"Very occasionally there appears a book destined to endure. A Secular Age is such a book."

--Edward Skidelsky, Daily Telegraph

"It is refreshing to read an inquiry into the condition of religion that is exploratory in its approach."

--John Gray, Harper's

"A Secular Age represents a singular achievement."

--Christopher J. Insole, Times Literary Supplement

"A determinedly brilliant new book."

--London Review of Books