FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: The New Humanism

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: November 11, 2009 5:46:10 PM CST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
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> This new online journal should be on the virtual bookshelf of humanists 
> everywhere. Issue 2 is now online and coincides with the publication of Greg 
> Epstein's book, Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do 
> Believe.
> 
>       http://thenewhumanism.org/
> 
> More description by Greg in Tikkun
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> http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2009/11/10/what-the-new-humanism-offers-spiritual-progressives/?utm_source=Tikkun+Daily+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=78636e4637-DAILY_DIGEST_EMAIL&utm_medium=email
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> The Harvard branding, and the Harpers imprint on the very readable book, will 
> surely create traction. It will raise anew here discussions of the current 
> utility of such terms as <secular>, <spiritual>, and the like. At this point 
> the ecumenicity/inclusivity of the enterprises seem to resonate well with the 
> long-standing emphases of the Institute
> 
> Bob