Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0143127934
ISBN 13
9780143127932
DDC
211.609
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Unknown
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Publication Year
2015
Publisher
Pages
288
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.
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.
Biblio Notes
Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He has written other books on secularism and blogs for 'Psychology Today' and the 'Huffington Post.'
In 2011 Zuckerman founded an interdisciplinary Department of Secular Studies at Pitzer College, the first in the nation." About the book, Greg M. Epstein, humanist chaplain at Harvard University and author of 'Good Without God,' said of this work,
Phil Zuckerman is without a doubt the leading American sociologist of secularism. And with American secularizing more rapidly and profoundly now than in any previous era in our history, Zuckerman's work has become essential reading.
Phil Zuckerman is also the author of Strife in the Sanctuary (AltaMira Press, 1999).
In 2011 Zuckerman founded an interdisciplinary Department of Secular Studies at Pitzer College, the first in the nation." About the book, Greg M. Epstein, humanist chaplain at Harvard University and author of 'Good Without God,' said of this work,
Phil Zuckerman is without a doubt the leading American sociologist of secularism. And with American secularizing more rapidly and profoundly now than in any previous era in our history, Zuckerman's work has become essential reading.
Phil Zuckerman is also the author of Strife in the Sanctuary (AltaMira Press, 1999).
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