Author: Bruce Cathey
Bruce E. Cathey (MA, Sociology of Science), a bibliographer by orientation, has been dredging the massive literature of freethought, rationalism, humanism, and related perspectives for more than thirty years. He has done multilingual multidisciplinary research in more than 100 research, national, professional, special, microform, rare book, public, and other libraries in five countries and is experienced in a wide range of reference, bibliographical, journal/periodical, database, academic, grey literature, and citation metrics materials. He is a contributor to The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (2007).
The Chasm of Humanism: A Heuristic Response
The recent demographic surge of the irreligious Nones presents a quandary to organized humanism. On the one hand, it constitutes a floodtide of defections away from traditional religion, thus easing, among other things, the chronic challenge facing humanists and atheists to counter discrimination against unbelief in the modern world. On the other hand, the newcomer …