Secular humanism and its commitments
Subtitle: the best of Free Inquiry
By: edited by Tom Flynn, Ronald A. Lindsay, Julia Lavarnway, and Andrea Szalanski
Contributors: Council for Secular Humanism
Publisher: Inquiry Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amherst, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781937998011
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Secular humanism; Humanisme laïque
Other titles: Best of Free Inquiry
Description: "This new anthology collects outstanding articles from the last decade of Free Inquiry, America's definitive secular humanist magazine. Thirteen wide-ranging essays shed light on the "life stance" that growing numbers of Americans are embracing in place of any religion"--Back cover.
Notes: "The articles in this book first appeared in Free Inquiry, the flagship magazine of the Council for Secular Humanism"--Preliminary pages.
Table of contents: title: Affirmations of humanism; title: Freedom of thought / Ronald A. Lindsay; title: Secular humanism is emancipatory / Tom Flynn; title: Naturalism and the future / Paul Kurtz; title: Worthwhile lives / Susan Haack; title: Atheists, come out of the closet / Richard Dawkins; title: A secular humanist definition / Tom Flynn; title: Secular humanism: its scope and limits / Ronald A. Lindsay; title: Is religion like sex? / Shadia Drury; title: Why democracy needs naturalism / John Shook; title: Split hairs and split movements / Ronald A. Lindsay; title: The big M / Tom Flynn; title: Narrative naturalism / Judith Walker; title: The need for confrontation / P. Z. Myers.