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Educating Humanists

The Challenge of Sustaining Communities in the Contemporary Era

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Editors:
  1. William David Hart

    1. Religious Studies, Macalester College, Saint Paul, USA

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  • Brings together diverse perspectives on humanism and education
  • Speaks to the question of education within humanist communities and the wider world
  • Explores the cultivation of virtue, as conceived in the Renaissance ideal?

Part of the book series: Studies in Humanism and Atheism (SHA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Humanism and Education

    • William David Hart
    Pages 1-16

  3. Humanist Education

    • Kristin Wintermute
    Pages 17-31

  4. Teaching Humanism

    • Joachim Duyndam
    Pages 33-53

  5. Edward Said as Humanist Educator (with a Note on John Dewey)

    • William David Hart
    Pages 55-81

  6. Going Back to College: The Survival of Unitarian Universalism Depends on It

    • April D. DeConick
    Pages 83-97

  7. Comparing Religions in Public: Rural America, Evangelicals, and the Prophetic Function of the Humanities

    • Jeffrey J. Kripal
    Pages 99-110

  8. Confronting the Rising Danger of White Rage

    • Sharon D. Welch
    Pages 111-132

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 133-135
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About this book

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?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Religious Studies, Macalester College, Saint Paul, USA

    William David Hart

About the editor

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Educating Humanists

  • Book Subtitle: The Challenge of Sustaining Communities in the Contemporary Era

  • Editors: William David Hart

  • Series Title: Studies in Humanism and Atheism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88527-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88526-7Published: 18 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88527-4Published: 01 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6656

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6664

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 135

  • Topics: Religious Studies, general, Philosophy, general, History of Philosophy

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