Life After Faith Sensible Religion Joan Chittister: Essential Writings with Heart in Mind Embracing the Divine Feminine: The Song of Songs A New Buddhist Path God’s Message to the World the Religion of the Future Speaking Out: Queer Youth in Focus against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion

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Other| April 01 2015 Life After Faith Sensible Religion Joan Chittister: Essential Writings with Heart in Mind Embracing the Divine Feminine: The Song of Songs A New Buddhist Path God’s Message to the World the Religion of the Future Speaking Out: Queer Youth in Focus against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion Trumpeter, Alan Morinis/Shambhala Publications, 2014Mangabeira, RobertoUnger Harvard University Press, 2014Edited by Conrad, RyanAK Press, 2014 Tikkun (2015) 30 (2): 2. https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3111930 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Life After Faith Sensible Religion Joan Chittister: Essential Writings with Heart in Mind Embracing the Divine Feminine: The Song of Songs A New Buddhist Path God’s Message to the World the Religion of the Future Speaking Out: Queer Youth in Focus against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion. Tikkun 1 April 2015; 30 (2): 2. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-3111930 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsTikkun Search Advanced Search The powerful ascent of fundamentalist religions in the last forty years has chastened those who predicted a triumph of secular thought and the gradual withering away of all religions. Yet the prominence of hate-filled orthodoxies has also provoked a strong movement of spiritual progressives in every religious community who are seeking to reclaim the ethical foundations of their religion and sometimes to rethink the metaphysical and theological foundations that underlie them.The challenge to religion is put forcefully by Philip Kitcher, whose subtitle, The Case for Secular Humanism, suggests a more powerful argument than the “New Atheists” have been able to supply, in part because it eschews their crude caricatures of the more sophisticated versions of contemporary religions. Kitcher hopes for a supersession of the privileged scriptures of religion to “a more inclusive collection of resources … supplied by the natural and social sciences … [and] derived from the... Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.