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Humanism and the Challenge of Difference Anthony B. Pinn

Humanism and the Challenge of Difference By Anthony B. Pinn

Humanism and the Challenge of Difference by Anthony B. Pinn

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This book explores the implication of diversity for humanism. 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.

Humanism and the Challenge of Difference Summary

Humanism and the Challenge of Difference by Anthony B. Pinn

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.

About Anthony B. Pinn

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religion at Rice University, USA. He is also the Director of Research for the Institute for Humanist Studies in Washington, D.C.


Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
IntroductionSection One:The Look of Difference
Chapter One
Monica Miller, God 'Aint Good, but Humans 'Aint Better: Humanism at the Intersections of Social Difference
Chapter Two
Sikivu Hutchinson, Respectability Among Heathens: Black Feminist Atheist Humanists
Chapter Three
Yazmin A. G. Trejo, Understanding Secular Latinas: Demographic, Social, and Political Aspects
Chapter Four
Nicole C. Kirk, A Humanist Congregation in Post-War Black Chicago: Lewis McGee and the Free Religious Association, 1947-1953

Section Two:The Significance of Difference
Chapter Five
Sincere Kirabo, Humanism, Individualism, and Sensible Identity Politics
Chapter Six
Ana Honnacker, Man as the Measure of All Things: Pragmatic Humanism and Its Pitfalls


Chapter Seven
Jennifer Bardi, Contextualizing a Radical Humanism: Issues of Race in the Humanist Fifty Years Ago and Today
Section Three:The Practice of Difference
Chapter Eight
Juhem Navarro-Rivera, Beyond Church & State: Liberalism, Race, and the Future of Secular Political Engagement
Chapter Nine
Vincent Lloyd, How Religious Is #BlackLivesMatter?
Chapter Ten
Greta Christina, Humanist Sexual Ethics
Chapter Eleven
Vic Wang, How Humanists of Houston Addresses Issues of Race, Gender, and Class

Contributors
Bibliography

Additional information

NPB9783319940984
9783319940984
3319940988
Humanism and the Challenge of Difference by Anthony B. Pinn
Anthony B. Pinn
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-10-17
271
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