This book collects the essay "The future of the religious past" together with other works in which Charles Taylor delves into the most relevant theses of his work "The secular era" which allows a direct and systematic approach to his philosophy of religion. In clear opposition to the classic theory of the secularization of the Western world, Taylor develops a set of narratives to account for those vectors that, from a religious past, extend and transform to our present. Only by tracing these characteristics and lines of action will it be possible to understand the survival of religion and its present and future forms. Based on this development, Taylor outlines the main challenges facing religion today: the apparent decline of belief in any form of transcendence, the rise of fundamentalisms and their connection with categorical violence, the understanding of religious reason as a deficit mode of reasoning, the loss of meanings and the impulse to reenchantment, the tension between ethics, politics and religion in the democratic era or the danger of moralism that accompanies exclusive humanism. For these and other problems, Taylor offers his own interpretive keys in the search for a better understanding and possible solutions, configuring an agile philosophy of religion with a clear practical vocation.