Humanist and secular alternatives to religion

Over the course of his career, Luther H.

Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight.

Chaplaincy for a Plural World provides a theoretical foundation for an inclusive understanding of chaplaincy and lays out key chaplaincy methods for providing spiritual care in a modern context.

From the very beginning James Joyce's readers have considered him as a Catholic or an anti-Catholic writer, and in recent years the tendency has been to recuperate him for an alternative and decidedly liberal form of Catholicism.

During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of "e;Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus--and nonbelievers.

Die Dakota, ein stolzes Volk mit einer reichen Geschichte, haben eine tiefe und ehrfürchtige Beziehung zur Natur, die ihre Kultur und Spiritualität durchdringt.

"e;Few are agnostic about atheism and agnosticism; this eloquent, wide-ranging volume should appeal to many, as well as supporting recent academic interest in its subject.

Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism.

John Stuart Mill observed in his Autobiography that he was a rare case in nineteenth-century Britain because he had not lost his religion but never had any.

In recent years the Christian faith has been challenged by skeptics, including the New Atheists, who claim that belief in God is simply not reasonable.

This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality.

The number of people claiming no religious affiliation has skyrocketed in recent years, and that growth shows no signs of slowing down.

Nietzsche was famously an atheist, despite coming from a strongly Protestant family.

The growing absence of meaningful ritual in contemporary Western societies has led to cohesive research on the history of ritualizing behaviour in different cultures.

The last few years have seen a remarkable surge of popular interest in the topic of atheism.

This book acts as a bridge between the critical study of 'religion' and empirical studies of 'religion in the real world'.

This book addresses a growing need in apologetic literature.

What is real?

Chaplaincy for a Plural World provides a theoretical foundation for an inclusive understanding of chaplaincy and lays out key chaplaincy methods for providing spiritual care in a modern context.

The number of people claiming no religious affiliation has skyrocketed in recent years, and that growth shows no signs of slowing down.

This volume presents the findings of a number of empirical and theoretical studies on education about religions and worldviews (ERW) conducted in the Western societies of Britain, Ireland, Canada, Norway, Finland, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion.

While humanist sensibilities have played a formative role in the advancement of our species, critical attention to humanism as a field of study is a more recent development.

In Letters to an Atheist, esteemed philosopher and author Peter Kreeft corresponds with a young atheist who is wrestling with the question of God.

Annie Besant is primarily remembered as the international president of the Theosophical Society.

In recent years, the extent to which contemporary societies are secular has come under scrutiny.

John D.

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In 1999, five scholars presented lectures at Washington National Cathedral about our images of God and what difference they make.

SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A highly readable, fascinating book that jerks the debate on religion versus atheism right out of its crusted rut into the light of serious intellectual scrutiny' ObserverA meditation on the importance of atheism in the modern world - and its inadequacies and contradictions - by one of Britain's leading philosophers'When you explore older atheisms, you will find some of your firmest convictions - secular or religious - are highly questionable.

Over the past decade the Religion vs.

Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "e;everything is permitted.

Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus "e;everything is permitted.

Heralded as the exponents of a 'new atheism', critics of religion are highly visible in today's media, and include the household names of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris.

For many decades, militant atheism and religious dogmatism have fed off each other.

Religion has been a powerful and determinative force in human life ever since the beginning of time.

Why are more and more people believing that there is no god?

In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds.

Do religions have an inherent right to be respected?

How should we conduct ourselves in our daily lives?

Heralded as the exponents of a 'new atheism', critics of religion are highly visible in today's media, and include the household names of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris.

Having presented core and other principles underpinning our conduct and actions in Living Humanism Part 1, and having discussed these principles and their application in a range of key areas and contexts, part two of Living Humanism takes the discussion and application of core and other principles into the realms of further areas, situations and circumstances relevant to our daily lives, and tackles additional questions and issues central to our personal conduct and action.

In 2007 Anthony Grayling wrote Against All Gods, a collection of polemical essays attacking religion.

A passionate, highly accessible clarion call to a world dangerously threatened by irrational superstitions of all kinds.

In "Schleier der Geheimnisse" entführt uns Rebecca Fuller auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Jahrhunderte, um das oft übersehene Wirken von Frauen in den Schattenwelten der Geheimgesellschaften zu beleuchten.