What secular age?

Abstract

After asserting that the title of Charles Taylor's book A Secular Age is misleading-since around the world religious communities of belief are still quite robust-this paper argues that the most important tension in contemporary societies, is not, as Taylor thinks, that between believers and so-called unbelievers, but rather that between monists and pluralists, between advocates of closed communities and advocates of open communities, be they religious or secular. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.