Educating Humanists: The Challenge of Sustaining Communities in the Contemporary Era

by William David Hart (Editor)

Overview

This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank. Given this dual challenge, how can "secular" humanism educate, sustain, and reproduce itself?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030885274
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	01/01/2022
Series:	Studies in Humanism and Atheism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	329 KB

About the Author

William David Hart is the Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Religious Studies at Macalester College, USA. He is the author of four monographs including The Blackness of Black: Key Concepts in Critical Discourse (2020) and Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture (2000).

Table of Contents

1. Humanism and Education.- 2. Humanist Education.- 3. Teaching Humanism.- 4. Edward Said as Humanist Educator (with a Note on John Dewey).- 5. Going Back to College: The Survival of Unitarian Universalism Depends on It.- 6. Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities.- 7. Confronting the Rising Danger of White Rage.