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This helpful summary of philosopher Charles Taylor's work examines what it means to live in a secular age.

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Margaret Atwood is one of the most important and influential writers alive today. Her fiction explores and reflects the current cultural…

In Fictional Absence, Pete Lowman considers the presence and absence of God in English literature. It has been slightly revised for…

In 1959, the children of a new elementary school bury a time capsule containing their ideas of what they think the world will be like in…

The world's only consulting detective steps into the 21st Century in the BBC series Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the titular…

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