reading Charles Taylor Smith, James K. A. 1970- creator author. text Electronic books. miu 2014 monographic eng 1 online resource. 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. Introduction : Our cross-pressured present : inhabiting a secular age -- Reforming belief : the secular as modern accomplishment -- The religious path to exclusive humanism : from deism to atheism -- The malaise of immanence : the "feel" of a secular age -- Contesting the secularization thesis -- How (not) to live in a secular age -- Conclusion : Conversions -- Glossary James K.A. Smith. Includes index. Taylor, Charles 1931- Christian philosophy Christianity Philosophy Secularism Religion and culture RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic RELIGION / Christianity / General BR100 230.01 9781467440615 1467440612 004CB1CB-A33D-4518-916B-3573875D7F18 OverDrive, Inc. http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID={004CB1CB-A33D-4518-916B-3573875D7F18}&Format=410 http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID={004CB1CB-A33D-4518-916B-3573875D7F18}&Format=610 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1058474 http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/4233-1/{004CB1CB-A33D-4518-916B-3573875D7F18}Img100.jpg http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID={004CB1CB-A33D-4518-916B-3573875D7F18}&Format=410 http://www.contentreserve.com/TitleInfo.asp?ID={004CB1CB-A33D-4518-916B-3573875D7F18}&Format=610 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1058474 http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/4233-1/{004CB1CB-A33D-4518-916B-3573875D7F18}Img100.jpg TEFOD 140715 20200709060408.0 ocn883672514 eng