{"product_id":"how-not-to-be-secular-reading-charles-taylor-1","title":"How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor","description":"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.\n\nTaylor'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.\n\nEven 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0802867618\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0802867618.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Smith, James K. A.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516549013562,"sku":"DBV.0802867618.VG","price":7.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0802867618-0_6d4dd131-3953-4099-978d-4ff087752046.jpg?v=1783741865","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/how-not-to-be-secular-reading-charles-taylor-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}