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