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Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Difference and Disregard; The Current Cultural Climate; Purpose of This Volume; The Look of Difference; The Significance of Difference; The Practice of Difference; Part I: The Look of Difference; Chapter 2: God Ain't Good, but Humans Ain't Better: Humanism at the Intersections of Social Difference; "Snatching" Intersectionality and Taking the "High" Road; Seeing the Particular Inside of the Intersectional; Global Intersectionality and Protesting the Particular
Chapter 3: Respectability Among Heathens: Black Feminist Atheist HumanistsChapter 4: Understanding Secular Latinas: Demographic, Social, and Political Aspects; Providing Definitions on the Study of Latina Nones; Research on Latina Nones: A Nascent Topic; Data18; Growth of Secularism, Childhood Religion, and Self-identification of Secular Latinas/os; Socioeconomic Characteristics of Secular Latinas/os; The Politics of the Latina Nones; Conclusions; Chapter 5: A Humanist Congregation in Post-war Black Chicago: Lewis McGee and the Free Religious Association, 1947-1953; Post-war Black Chicago
McGee's Path to HumanismCritical Times; Conclusion; Part II: The Significance of Difference; Chapter 6: Humanism, Individualism, and Sensible Identity Politics; The Discourse of Individualism; Dynamic One: Denies Social and Historical Context; Dynamic Two: Prevents a Macro Analysis of the Institutional and Structural Dimensions of Social Life; Dynamic Three: Denies Collective Socialization and the Power of Dominant Culture (Media, Education, Religion, etc.) to Shape Our Perspectives and Ideology; Dynamic Four: Functions as Neo-Colorblindness and Reproduces the Myth of Meritocracy
Understanding IdentityIdentity Politics; The Erroneous Excoriation of Identity Politics; Part I: Not All Whites Are Oppressors, Not All White Men Are "Bad," Not All Black or Brown Women Are "Good"; Part II: It's Not About Social Groups-It's All About Political Stances; Part III: We Must Challenge Class and Structure Issues; Distinguishing Between Reasonable and Unreasonable Identity Politics; Chapter 7: Man as the Measure of All Things: Pragmatic Humanism and Its Pitfalls; What Is Pragmatic Humanism?; A Rebel and a Reconciler: Schiller and James; Humanizing Reality
Between Pessimism and OptimismListening to a Multitude of Voices: The Challenge of Pluralistic Ethics; Making Blind Spots Visible; The Maleness of Man; The Ideal of the Super-Men; An Unfinished Agenda; Responsible Reality-Making; Conclusion: Humility, Creative Action and the Trail of the Human Serpent; Chapter 8: Contextualizing a Radical Humanism: Issues of Race in the Humanist Fifty Years Ago and Today; Part III: The Practice of Difference; Chapter 9: Beyond Church and State: Liberalism, Race, and the Future of Secular Political Engagement; Introduction
Chapter 3: Respectability Among Heathens: Black Feminist Atheist HumanistsChapter 4: Understanding Secular Latinas: Demographic, Social, and Political Aspects; Providing Definitions on the Study of Latina Nones; Research on Latina Nones: A Nascent Topic; Data18; Growth of Secularism, Childhood Religion, and Self-identification of Secular Latinas/os; Socioeconomic Characteristics of Secular Latinas/os; The Politics of the Latina Nones; Conclusions; Chapter 5: A Humanist Congregation in Post-war Black Chicago: Lewis McGee and the Free Religious Association, 1947-1953; Post-war Black Chicago
McGee's Path to HumanismCritical Times; Conclusion; Part II: The Significance of Difference; Chapter 6: Humanism, Individualism, and Sensible Identity Politics; The Discourse of Individualism; Dynamic One: Denies Social and Historical Context; Dynamic Two: Prevents a Macro Analysis of the Institutional and Structural Dimensions of Social Life; Dynamic Three: Denies Collective Socialization and the Power of Dominant Culture (Media, Education, Religion, etc.) to Shape Our Perspectives and Ideology; Dynamic Four: Functions as Neo-Colorblindness and Reproduces the Myth of Meritocracy
Understanding IdentityIdentity Politics; The Erroneous Excoriation of Identity Politics; Part I: Not All Whites Are Oppressors, Not All White Men Are "Bad," Not All Black or Brown Women Are "Good"; Part II: It's Not About Social Groups-It's All About Political Stances; Part III: We Must Challenge Class and Structure Issues; Distinguishing Between Reasonable and Unreasonable Identity Politics; Chapter 7: Man as the Measure of All Things: Pragmatic Humanism and Its Pitfalls; What Is Pragmatic Humanism?; A Rebel and a Reconciler: Schiller and James; Humanizing Reality
Between Pessimism and OptimismListening to a Multitude of Voices: The Challenge of Pluralistic Ethics; Making Blind Spots Visible; The Maleness of Man; The Ideal of the Super-Men; An Unfinished Agenda; Responsible Reality-Making; Conclusion: Humility, Creative Action and the Trail of the Human Serpent; Chapter 8: Contextualizing a Radical Humanism: Issues of Race in the Humanist Fifty Years Ago and Today; Part III: The Practice of Difference; Chapter 9: Beyond Church and State: Liberalism, Race, and the Future of Secular Political Engagement; Introduction