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?

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?

Autorentext

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).

Inhalt

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.