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Record Nr.

UNINA9910523809703321

Autore

Hart William David

Titolo

Educating Humanists : The Challenge of Sustaining Communities in the Contemporary Era / / edited by William David Hart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030885274

9783030885267

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (138 pages)

Collana

Studies in Humanism and Atheism, , 2634-6664

Disciplina

144

Soggetti

Religion

Philosophy

Philosophy, Renaissance

Intercultural Philosophy and Religious Traditions

Renaissance Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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? 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).