Living the secular life
Subtitle: new answers to old questions
By: Phil Zuckerman
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781594205088
Subjects: Secularism; Conduct of life; Religion
Description: Over the last twenty-five years, "no religion" has become the fastest-growing religion in the United States. Around the world, hundreds of millions of people have turned away from the traditional faiths of the past and embraced a moral yet nonreligious--or secular--life, generating societies vastly less religious than at any other time in human history. Revealing the inspiring beliefs that empower secular culture--alongside real stories of nonreligious men and women based on extensive in-depth interviews from across the country. Zuckerman is a sociologist who in this groundbreaking book writes clearly, offers unobtrusive statistical support, and provides a persuasive and comprehensive look at the growing contemporary phenomenon of people who choose to live without religion, but with ethics and meaning in their lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-262) and index.
Table of contents: title: Morality; title: The good society; title: Irreligion rising; title: Raising kids; title: Creating community; title: Trying times; title: Don't fear the reaper; title: Aweism.