Author: Phil Zuckerman
Phil Zuckerman grew up in Southern California, but has lived in Oregon, Israel, and Denmark. He is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College, in Claremont, California. He is the author of several books, including Society Without God (NYU Press, 2008) and Faith No More (Oxford U. Press, 2011).
Clinical Notes on Atheism and Self-Reliance
There were many times when Gail1 thought she’d hit rock-bottom, only to fall even further and land with an even harder thud. Her childhood was rough. Her mother was encumbered with undiagnosed and untreated depression, and her father was bipolar—also undiagnosed and untreated. Part of his mania manifested in his packing up the family to move …
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Unprecedented secularization across the world isn’t just news; in innumerable ways it is good news.
Required Reading for Seculars
Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of the Secular Americans, by David Niose (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, ISBN 978-0-230-33895-1) 240 pp. Hardcover, $27.00. One of the classes that I teach within the secular studies program at Pitzer College is called “Secularism: Local/Global.” A major goal of the class is to understand and analyze the political and …
Secular Studies Arrives at Last
Students can now study secularity. They can even get a degree in it. Pitzer College, one of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, has formally approved the formation of a secular studies department – the first such department in the United States, and I think, the world. I’m very proud to be a part of …
Aweism
The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle. — Albert …