How Not to be Secular by James K A Smith

How Not to be Secular by James K A Smith

How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls your hitchhiker's guide to the present -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times.

Taylor's landmark book A Secular Age (2007) provides a monumental, incisive analysis of what it means to live in the post-Christian present -- a pluralist world of competing beliefs and growing unbelief. Jamie Smith's book is a compact field guide to Taylor's insightful study of the secular, making that very significant but daunting work accessible to a wide array of readers.

Even more, though, Smith's How (Not) to Be Secular is a practical philosophical guidebook, a kind of how-to manual on how to live in our secular age. It ultimately offers us an adventure in self-understanding and maps out a way to get our bearings in today's secular culture, no matter who we are -- whether believers or skeptics, devout or doubting, self-assured or puzzled and confused. This is a book for any thinking person to chew on.

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ISBN 13	9780802867612
ISBN 10	0802867618
Title	How Not to be Secular
Author	James K A Smith
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	William B Eerdmans Publishing Co
Year published	2014-04-23
Number of pages	148
Prizes	Winner of Christianity Today Book Award (Christianity & Culture) 2015
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