How long does it take to read A Secular Age?
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor takes about 16 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 16 hours 1 minute
A long haul
First published 2008. 874 pages, about 240,350 words.
33 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 16 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 10 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others." "Taylor offers a historical perspective. He examines the development in "Western Christendom" of those aspects of modernity which we call secular. What he describes is in fact not a single, continuous transformation, but a series of new departures, in which earlier forms of religious life have been dissolved or destabilized and new ones have been created." "What this means for the world - including the new forms of collective religious life it encourages, with their tendency to a mass mobilization that breeds violence - is what Charles Taylor grapples with, in a book as timely as it is timeless."--Jacket.
Subjects: Religion and culture, Secularism, Secularisatie (maatschappij), Christendom, Religieus bewustzijn, Godsdienst
