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