Secular Century

In this significant book, Charles Taylor raises the question of what is happening when society in which it is almost impossible not to believe in God, turns into such where faith, even for the most convinced believers, is just one of the human capabilities Along with others. Taylor, one of the most insightful thinkers in this area, offers us a historical perspective. He explores the development of those aspects of the era of modern in Western Christianity, which we call secular. What he describes is not a single continuous transformation, but a series of new directions, in which the forms of religious life were dissolved or destabilized, and new ones were created in their place. What it means for the world, including new forms of collective religious life, which he supports, with their tendency to mobilize masses, generating violence, is that Charles Taylor is trying to understand in his book, as timely, how much time standing out of time