How (not) to be secular: reading charles taylor - James K. A. Smith

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• 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.