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10 - The New Humanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2019

J. L. Schellenberg
Affiliation:
Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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When people of today, including the Nones, look back over the past life of our culture and ahead to the future, they often think that the perspective to take with us into that future is secular humanism. Secular humanism says religion has had its chance and failed. Or at least that it – secular humanism – can take the good things from religion, combine them with a bunch of other good things, and leave us ahead of the game. But the claims defended in this book show how religion can rise again. And the content of the argument, somewhat unexpectedly, suggests how a new religious humanism might be developed. Among other things, I want to give some attention to how strongly this new humanism challenges secular humanism. Who is best fitted to take us into the deep future? Who passes – or best passes – a 10,000-year test understood in that sense?

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Religion after Science
The Cultural Consequences of Religious Immaturity
, pp. 116 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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  • The New Humanism
  • J. L. Schellenberg, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Book: Religion after Science
  • Online publication: 09 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614832.011
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  • The New Humanism
  • J. L. Schellenberg, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Book: Religion after Science
  • Online publication: 09 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614832.011
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  • The New Humanism
  • J. L. Schellenberg, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
  • Book: Religion after Science
  • Online publication: 09 August 2019
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614832.011
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