Article: Charles Taylor on Our Secular Age (REVIEW ESSAY) - In light of the late Ronald F. Inglehart s 2021 book Religion s Sudden Decline: What s Causing it, and What Comes Next? (Oxford University Press), it is time to revisit Charles Taylor s 2007 875-page book A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) and the work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003).