Your review of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap, 2007) suggests that he conceives of the rise of secularism as stretching across entire continents, such as Europe and North America (“A Land where God is Absent,” September 8, 2007). As a philosopher, he is entitled to such a lofty view, but even a cursory analysis of the demise of religion on these continents shows that it to be largely confined to social elites and centers of power in society. The recent resurgence of religion mainly in North America but also in Europe shows quite clearly that it does not stem from other continents. It is part and parcel of the resurgence of hitherto marginal social strata, such as farmers and industrial workers. Any discussion of secularism and religion that eschews social analysis is liable to miss the dynamic between the two, as well as that between the social strata. If that is a failing of Taylor’s book, your review should at least point it out. As well as suggest a way forward that does not obscure the social underpinnings of secularism and religion alike.