{"product_id":"9781467440615","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173107974384,"sku":"9781467440615","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781467440615_p0.jpg?v=1769892553","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781467440615","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}