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Perm Loc	RTC Library
Barcode	R371693220
Title	How (not) to be secular : Reading Charles Taylor
Author	Smith, James K. A.
Call No	230.01 SMI
Collection	Non Fiction
Copy No	1

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Perm Loc	Circ Status	Edition
RTC Library	Available

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International Standard Book Number	9780802867612
Dewey Decimal Classification Number	230.01 SMI
Personal Name	Smith, James K. A.
Title Statement	How (not) to be secular : Reading Charles Taylor
Imprint	Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans, 2014.
Physical Description	148p.
General Note	Includes Index and Bibliographical References.
Summary, Etc.	This book is a smart, intelligent guide to navigating today's culture. 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. - Publisher
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	RELIGION AND CULTURE.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	SECULARISM.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term	TAYLOR, CHARLES.