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How (Not) To Be Secular

Reading Charles Taylor

by James K.A. Smith

The Patheos Book Club features "How (Not) To Be Secular" by James K.A. Smith, 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. | read more»

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How (Not) to Be Secular 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. | read more »

How (Not) To Be Secular: Read an Excerpt

What does it look like to bear witness in a secular age? What does it look like to be faithful? To what extent have Christians unwittingly absorbed the tendencies of this world? | read more »

Praise for How (Not) To Be Secular

"Smith invites the reader on a journey through the experience of the spirit in different centuries, and how our conceptions of mind and person shape belief in ways far more intimate than we usually imagine." Read what T. M. Luhrmann, Tim Keller and Hans Boersma are saying about the new book. | read more »

An Interview with James K.A. Smith

"The world is not carved up into 'believers' and 'secular' rational knowers. It's a complicated array of different sorts of believers. And that's why Taylor calls ours a 'secular' age..." | read more »

A Conversation with James K.A. Smith

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