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Western Esotericism: History & Scholarship

A Secular Age

by Charles Taylor

A large philosophical history of how Western societies moved from a world in which belief in God was virtually unavoidable to one in which it is one option among many. Taylor's contrast between the 'porous' self of an enchanted world and the 'buffered' modern self is widely used in religious studies.

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