A Secular Age

A Secular Age examines the shift in Western society from a condition where belief in God was virtually unavoidable to one where faith is merely one option among many. Charles Taylor traces the historical development of secularity through changes in 'social imaginaries,' the 'buffered self,' and the immanent frame of modernity. The work argues that secularism is a complex historical construction that redefines the conditions of belief rather than simply the absence of religion.