Humanism and the Challenge of Difference

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Introduction (Anthony B. Pinn)....Pages 1-14 Front Matter ....Pages 15-15 God Ain’t Good, but Humans Ain’t Better: Humanism at the Intersections of Social Difference (Monica R. Miller)....Pages 17-35 Respectability Among Heathens: Black Feminist Atheist Humanists (Sikivu Hutchinson)....Pages 37-50 Understanding Secular Latinas: Demographic, Social, and Political Aspects (Yazmín A. G. Trejo)....Pages 51-75 A Humanist Congregation in Post-war Black Chicago: Lewis McGee and the Free Religious Association, 1947–1953 (Nicole C. Kirk)....Pages 77-99 Front Matter ....Pages 101-101 Humanism, Individualism, and Sensible Identity Politics (Sincere Kirabo)....Pages 103-133 Man as the Measure of All Things: Pragmatic Humanism and Its Pitfalls (Ana Honnacker)....Pages 135-164 Contextualizing a Radical Humanism: Issues of Race in the Humanist Fifty Years Ago and Today (Jennifer Bardi)....Pages 165-188 Front Matter ....Pages 189-189 Beyond Church and State: Liberalism, Race, and the Future of Secular Political Engagement (Juhem Navarro-Rivera)....Pages 191-214 How Religious Is #BlackLivesMatter? (Vincent Lloyd)....Pages 215-237 Humanist Sexual Ethics (Greta Christina)....Pages 239-252 Back Matter ....Pages 253-271