How Not to be Secular : Paperback : William B Eerdmans Publishing Co : 9780802867612 : 0802867618 : 01 May 2014 : 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...