How (not) to be secular : reading Charles Taylor
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Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014.
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Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014.
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Book
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xii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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1404.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smith, J. K. A. (2014). How (not) to be secular: reading Charles Taylor . William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, James K. A., 1970-. 2014. How (not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smith, James K. A., 1970-. How (not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smith, James K. A. How (not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2014.
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