{"product_id":"how-not-to-be-secular-reading-charles-taylor-paperback","title":"How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames K. A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow (Not) to Be Secular\u003c\/i\u003e is what Jamie Smith calls \"your hitchhiker's guide to the present\" -- it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work \u003ci\u003eA Secular Age\u003c\/i\u003e and philosophical guidance on how we might learn to live in our times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaylor's landmark book \u003ci\u003eA Secular Age\u003c\/i\u003e (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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven more, though, Smith's \u003ci\u003eHow (Not) to Be Secular\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 01, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Christianity Today Book Award (2015)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151124369543,"sku":"9780802867612","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d5ddc20a4e76cdf37e6d487321039ad5.webp?v=1733204786","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/how-not-to-be-secular-reading-charles-taylor-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}