![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, what Taylor is driving at is a shift in what he calls the “ conditions of belief”, the “taken-for-granted” background assumptions, framework, or imaginary, the naive world we all inhabit even before we start thinking about what we believe. (1) A Secular Age: Introduction In the first chapter of A Secular Age Charles Taylor asks a question that he will pursue for the rest of the book: “why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, 1500 in our Western society, while in 2000 many of us find this not only easy, but even inescapable?” What is Taylor getting at when he asks this question, what shift is he trying to describe? In describing the shift to what Taylor calls a “Secular Age,” he is not thinking of a decline in religious belief-lots of people still believe in God in secular societies. ![]() Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. At the bottom of this page I’ve included a glossary for the Taylorisms used in the summary (the worlds included in the glossary are in bold) I’ve also included an index for my chapter summaries and some suggestions for further reading. ![]() I’ve organized this shorter summary into 11 different sections and added some links to the corresponding chapter summary that each section is drawn from. For those of you feeling intimidated by my 21 part series on A Secular Age, this shorter summary could help you get a sense of the argument Taylor is making. ![]()
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