{"product_id":"how-not-to-be-secular-reading-charles-taylor-9780802867612","title":"How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor","description":"\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. \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, James K. A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - James K. A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin College, where he also teaches in the congregational and ministry studies department.","brand":"William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50632113717522,"sku":"9780802867612","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27829502-d47a-468d-96db-6791aba29098.jpg?v=1732789568","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/how-not-to-be-secular-reading-charles-taylor-9780802867612","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}