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What does it mean to live in a secular age?

What does it mean to live in a secular age?

In the second episode of Reading Our Times, Nick Spencer speaks to Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor. 27/10/2020

We live in “a secular age”, but what does that actually mean? How does secularism relate to religion? And how should it?

Nick Spencer talks to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor, about his famous book ‘A Secular Age’, which has done more to bring sophistication and nuance to the debates about secularism than any other published in a generation. 

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A Secular Age by Charles Taylor

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Nick Spencer

Nick Spencer

Nick is Senior Fellow at Theos. He is the author of The Landscapes of Science and Religion (OUP, 2025), Playing God: Science, Religion and the Future of Humanity (2024), and Magisteria: the entangled histories of science and religion (Oneworld, 2023). Nick is host of the podcast Reading Our Times.

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Posted 27 October 2020

Philosophy, Reading Our Times, Religion, Secularism

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