1. The genealogy of secularity according to Charles Taylor; 1.1 Taylor’s Genealogical
Method; 1.2 The inadequacy of the “subtraction” story; 1.3 The Axial Revolution, “embedded”
individuals and “porous” identity; 1.4 The consolidation of the individual’s
buffered identity; 1.5 The rise of a disciplinary society; 1.6 The Great Disembedding – 2.
The Theology behind the consolidation of secularism: “Providential Deism”; 2.1 A fourfold
anthropocentric shift; 2.2 The reaction of Christians; 2.3 The redimensioning of
Christian life; 2.4 The dynamics of the transformation; 2.5 The search of an agape substitute;
2.6 The rejection of orthodox Christianity; 2.7 Summing up – 3. Reflections on
Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age; 3.1 Taylor’s place in the debate on the origins of secularism;
3.2 The validity of Taylor’s analysis; 3.3 Where do we go from here?; 3.4 The eclipse
of worship in modern secularism; 3.5 The non-necessity of historical processes; 3.6 Secularity
and secularization