What does it mean to say that we live in a secular
age? Almost everyone would agree that in some sense we do: I mean the “we” who
live in the West, or perhaps Northwest, or otherwise put, the North Atlantic
world—although secularity extends also partially, and in different ways, beyond
this world. And the judgment of secularity seems hard to resist when we compare
these societies with anything else in human history: that is, with almost all
other contemporary societies (e.g., Islamic countries, India, Africa), on one
hand; and with the rest of human history, Atlantic or otherwise, on the other.
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