Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History
Bibliography in Progress

compiled by Ralph Dumain

History & Sociology

Campbell, Colin. Toward a Sociology of Irreligion. New York: Herder and Herder, 1972.

Derkx, Peter. Modern Humanism in the Netherlands (2002 or later).

Hale, J. Russell. The Unchurched: Who They Are and Why They Stay That Way. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1980.

Humanism, Meanings of Life, Worldviews, University for Humanistics (Universiteit voor Humanistiek), Utrecht, Netherlands, 25 January 2006.

The meaning of the word "humanism", 15 September 2003.

Hunter, James Davison. "‘America's Fourth Faith’: A Sociological Perspective on Secular Humanism," This World, no. 19, Fall 1987, pp. 101-110.

Meyer, Donald H. "Secular Transcendence: The American Religious Humanists," American Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 5, Winter, 1982, pp. 524-542.

Pasquale, Frank L. "Unbelief and Irreligion, Empirical Study and Neglect of," in The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, Tom Flynn, ed. (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), pp. 760-766.

Tribe, David H. 100 Years of Freethought. London: Elek, 1967. Note chapter on philosophy (Humanism) & bibliography.

Weldon, Stephen. "In Defense of Science: Secular Intellectuals and the Failure of Nerve Thesis," Religious Humanism, vol. 30, nos. 1 & 2, winter/spring 1996, p. 30-39. (See also my blog entry, Failure of Nerve.)

Weldon, Stephen P. "Secular Humanism: A Survey of Its Origins and Development," Religious Humanism, vol. 33, no. 3-4, Summer-Fall 1999, pp. 42-61.

Politics

Re-booting Humanism by Barry F. Seidman, & see esp. part 2.

Epstein, Greg M. (Humanist Chaplain at Harvard). My Speech at the Dinner with John Edwards (blog entry, June 11, 2007, The Heart of Humanism).

Smith, Gregory B. "Secular Humanism and Politics" [letter to editor], Free Inquiry, vol. 27, no. 4, June/July 2007, p. 13, 66. Complaint about the alleged liberal bias of the magazine.

Kurtz, Paul. "The Principles of Fairness: Progressive Taxation" (Editorial), Free Inquiry, Volume 26, Number 6, October / November 2006, pp. 4ff.

Speckhardt, Roy. "Can a Humanist Be a Political Conservative?", The Humanist, March /April 2004, pp. 30-31. On several other web sites including The Free Library.

"Humanists Not Necessarily Liberal" by John Cress, Tom Brucia, Abigail Ann Martin; The Humanist, May-June, 2004 .

Wisdom Project » Society and Politics Think Tank » Can a Humanist be a Political Conservative?

Progressives and Naturalists: Who Counts as a Humanist? (revised 8/07)

Hudgins, Edward. "Building Bridges to the Right: Libertarians, Conservatives, and Humanists," Free Inquiry, 9: 9-12, 1989.

Gordon, David. "Libertarianism Versus Secular Humanism?", Free Inquiry, 9: 22-23, 1989.

Schmitt, Richard. "Humanism and Socialism," Free Inquiry, 9: 16-19, 1989.

Nielsen, Kai. "Making a Case for Socialism," Free Inquiry, 9: 12-14, 1989.

Briskman, Larry. "Can a Secular Humanist Be a Classical Liberal?", Free Inquiry, 2: 27-29, 1982.

Hansen, Joseph. "Corliss Lamont on Humanism," International Socialist Review, Vol. 19, No. 4, Fall 1958, pp. 153-155.

"Humanism," in A Dictionary of Scientific Communism (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984), pp. 108-110.

Novack, George (William F. Warde, pseud.). "Socialism and Humanism," International Socialist Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, Winter 1959, pp. 13-16, & Vol. 20, No. 2, Spring 1959, pp. 53-59. (See also my blog entry Socialism & Humanism: Novack & Mattick.)

Mattick, Paul. "Humanism and Socialism" (1965), in Anti-Bolshevik Communism (London: Merlin Press, 1978). (See also my blog entry Socialism & Humanism: Novack & Mattick.)

Roberts, Edwin A. "Marxism and Secular Humanism: An Excavation and Reappraisal," Nature, Society, and Thought, vol. 12, no. 2, 1999, pp. 177-201.

Toward a New Political Humanism, edited by Barry F. Seidman and Neil J.Murphy. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2004. Contents. See also web sites for Barry F. Seidman and Equal Time for Freethought.

Philosophical Expositions

Dewey, John. A Common Faith. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934.

Walton, Christopher L. "The Religious Availability of John Dewey's God." Philocrites. 30 Oct. 1997. 4 Feb. 2008.

A Common Faith, by John Dewey (A Summary and Comments)

Herrick, Jim. Humanism: An Introduction, with a preface by Laurie Taylor. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005. Contents.

Introduction to Humanism :: A Primer on the History, Philosophy, and Goals of Humanism (COHE: The Continuum of Humanist Education)

Lamont, Corliss. A Lifetime of Dissent. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988. See Chapter 1: "Equivocation on Religious Issues" (1934), pp. 9-20.

Lamont, Corliss. The Philosophy of Humanism. 8th ed., revised. Amherst, NY: Half-Moon Foundation, Inc., 1997.

Morain, Lloyd & Mary. Humanism as the Next Step. New rev. ed. Amherst, NY: Humanist Press, 1998.

Robbins, J. Wesley. Essays in Pragmatic Humanism.

A Common Faith Revisited.

Vaughn, Lewis; Dacey, Austin. The Case for Humanism: An Introduction. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.

Ethical Culture

Concept Map for Ethical Culture: Towards Philosophical Consensus. A Statement of the National Leaders Council of the American Ethical Union. 1991.

Ericson, Edward L. The Humanist Way: An Introduction to Ethical Humanist Religion. New York: Continuum, 1988. Chapter 1.

Understanding Ethical Religion, edited by Howard B. Radest.

Journals

Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism (journal of the American Humanist Association)

Humanism Today (The Humanist Institute)

Research & Education Institutions

The Humanist Institute

Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS)

COHE :: The Continuum of Humanist Education

Webliographies & Bibliographies

Annotated Webliography of Humanism (3 Nov. 2007).

Atheism / Freethought / Humanism / Rationalism / Skepticism / Unbelief / Secularism / Church-State Separation Web Links

Ideology Study Guide

Reason & Society (offsite blog)

What’s in a name? What’s in a movement? (blog entry)