Author: Niels De Nutte
Niels De Nutte is a researcher at CAVA (the knowledge center and central archive of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the secular humanist movement in Flanders). He is a historian whose research focuses on postwar humanism with a special interest in subjects related to the history of bioethics and more specifically that of euthanasia advocacy. He is coeditor of Looking Back to Look Forward: Organised Humanism in the World. Belgium, Great Britain, the Netherlands, and the United States of America, 1945–2005, expected to be published in October. In that book, a team of international historians discusses the background and evolution of organized postwar humanism in their respective countries from a comparative perspective.
Vrijzinnigheid: Secular Humanism in Belgium
Many life stances are present in the European Union (EU); adherents of Catholicism, Islam, Judaism, Orthodox Christianity, and Protestantism are widespread. There are also smaller groups of Buddhist or Hindu denominations. These stances, together with secular humanism, form a patchwork of beliefs. Religious and life-stance pluralism is therefore accepted as a major principle of the …
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