Humanism and the Challenge of Difference

This book explores the implication of diversity for humanism. Through the insights of academics and activists, it highlights both the successes and failures related to diversity marking humanism in the US and internationally. It offers a timely depiction of how humanism in general as well as how par...

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Contributors: Pinn, Anthony B. 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2018
In:Year: 2018
Series/Journal:SpringerLink Bücher
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Humanism / Diversity
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Social History
B Secularism
B Humanism
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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Parallel Edition:Electronic
Erscheint auch als: 978-3-319-94098-4
Printed edition: 9783319940984
Printed edition: 9783319941004
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Summary:This book explores the implication of diversity for humanism. Through the insights of academics and activists, it highlights both the successes and failures related to diversity marking humanism in the US and internationally. It offers a timely depiction of how humanism in general as well as how particular humanist communities have wrestled with the nature of our changing world, and the issues that surface in relationship to markers of difference
Introduction -- Monica Miller, God ‘Aint Good, but Humans ‘Aint Better: Humanism at the Intersections of Social Difference -- Sikivu Hutchinson, Respectability Among Heathens: Black Feminist Atheist Humanists -- Yazmin A. G. Trejo, Understanding Secular Latinas: Demographic, Social, and Political Aspects -- Nicole C. Kirk, A Humanist Congregation in Post-War Black Chicago: Lewis McGee and the Free Religious Association, 1947-1953 -- Sincere Kirabo, Humanism, Individualism, and Sensible Identity Politics -- Ana Honnacker, Man as the Measure of All Things: Pragmatic Humanism and Its Pitfalls -- Jennifer Bardi, Contextualizing a Radical Humanism: Issues of Race in the Humanist Fifty Years Ago and Today -- Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Beyond Church & State: Liberalism, Race, and the Future of Secular Political Engagement -- Vincent Lloyd, How Religious Is #BlackLivesMatter? -- Greta Christina, Humanist Sexual Ethics
ISBN:3319940996
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94099-1