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Humanists are a part of a wider phenomenon in religion in the United States where people are increasingly identifying as nonreligious (\"nones\") and coming together outside of traditional religious communities. If you'd like to explore some of the different questions that the \"rise of the Nones\"<\/a> phenomenon raises, these are a few books across genres that have offered meaningful engagement with (post-)secularism, atheism, and Humanism in recent years:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
A Life of Courage: Sherwin Wine and Humanistic Judaism <\/span>by Dan Cohn-Sherbok (2004)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Darwin's Dangerous Idea\u00a0by Daniel Dennett (1995)<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Year of Magical Thinking<\/span> by Joan Didion (2007)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Choosing Our Religion: The Spiritual Lives of America\u2019s Nones<\/span> by Elizabeth Drescher (2016)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe <\/span>by Greg Epstein (2009)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction <\/span>by Rebecca Goldstein (2010)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Doubt: A History<\/span> by Jennifer Michael Hecht (2003)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars by Sikivu Hutchinson (2011)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The Witch is Not a Witch: The Dynamics and Contestations of Witchcraft Accusations in Northern Ghana by Leo Igwe (2016)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Consuming Religion by Kathryn Lofton (2017)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
By These Hands: A Documentary History of African American Humanism by Anthony Pinn (2001)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Contact by Carl Sagan (1985)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious by Chris Stedman (2012)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In Search of Our Mothers\u2019 Gardens: Prose by Alice Walker (1983)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom by Tisa Wenger (2009)<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
The End of God-Talk by Anthony Pinn<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humanism: Essays on race, religion, and cultural production by Anthony Pinn<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Black Freethinkers by Christopher Cameron<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humanism in the Hood by\u00a0<\/span>Sikivu <\/span>Hutchinson<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
On Humanism by Richard Norman<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Humanism in a Non-Humanist World<\/span> Edited by Monica R. Miller\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n


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