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