Charles Taylor's 2007 magnum opus asking why it was virtually impossible not to believe in God in 1500 and now virtually impossible for many to believe — arguing that secularity is not simply the absence of religion but a new positive condition of immanent meaning-making within a 'closed world structure.'
Provides the most philosophically rigorous account of modernity's relationship to religion — Taylor's key concepts (buffered self, disenchantment, nova effect, cross-pressures, immanent frame) describe how the conditions of belief transformed between 1500 and 2000, making A Secular Age the indispensable reference for understanding modern religious experience.
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