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Secularism --- Research --- atheism --- agnosticism --- humanism --- secular --- nonreligion --- secular humanist --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology)

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A positive assessment of secularism and the possibilities it offers for a genuinely meaningful life without religion. Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular perspective, one that answers human needs, recognizes the objectivity of values, and provides for the universal desire for meaningfulness. Kitcher thoughtfully and sensitively considers how secularism can respond to the worries and challenges that all people confront, including the issue of mortality. He investigates how secular lives compare with those of people who adopt religious doctrines as literal truth, as well as those who embrace less literalistic versions of religion. Whereas religious belief has been important in past times, Kitcher concludes that evolution away from religion is now essential. He envisions the successors to religious life, where the senses of identity and community traditionally fostered by religion will instead draw on a broader range of cultural items—those provided by poets, filmmakers, musicians, artists, scientists, and others. With clarity and deep insight, Kitcher reveals the power of secular humanism to encourage fulfilling human lives built on ethical truth.

Secular humanism --- Religion --- Atheism --- Philosophy --- 211.55 --- 211.55 Secularisatie. Entmythologisierung --- Secularisatie. Entmythologisierung --- Secular humanism. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Rationalism --- Humanism --- Secularism --- Free thought --- Religion - Philosophy

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Covering works by popular figures like Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst as well as less familiar English composers, Eric Saylor's pioneering work examines pastoral music's critical, theoretical, and stylistic foundations alongside its creative manifestations in the contexts of Arcadia, war, landscape, and the Utopian imagination.

Pastoral music (Secular) --- Music --- Music, Pastoral --- Pastoral music --- Pastorale (Music) --- History and criticism.

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Comment les laïcs se sont-ils impliqués dans la chose religieuse, en y investissant de l’argent, du temps, du capital symbolique et même émotionnel ? L’Église des laïcs questionne l’initiative des fidèles auprès des institutions religieuses, entre le xvie et le xxe siècle, notamment dans la vieille Europe et les espaces américains dominés par les Ibériques. L’ouvrage observe ces modalités d’investissement dans le sacré au sein du catholicisme, tout en dressant des passerelles avec l’islam, les christianismes orientaux, la religion orthodoxe. Quelles stratégies, quelles formes de participation, quelles sensibilités les acteurs sociaux ont-ils mobilisé pour agir sur les institutions de l’Ecclesia et en leur sein ? Quels retours sur investissement en espéraient-ils ? Peut-on mesurer les bénéfices de leurs engagements ? Tenter de répondre à ces questions, c’est réfléchir à ce qui se joue dans l’économie de la grâce et du don que pratiquent les laïcs, en confrontant leurs attentes et leurs dividendes. Este libro estudia la participación de los laicos en la creación, gestión y perpetuación de las instituciones y actividades eclesiásticas en Europa y América desde el siglo xvi hasta el xx. Examina la naturaleza y el grado de control que ejercen los laicos sobre estas instituciones en cuanto a sus motivaciones y los beneficios que esperan obtener de su participación en la vida religiosa. Contribuye a la comprensión de lo que sucede en el siglo xxi cuando el incendio de una catedral como Notre-Dame genera una extraordinaria movilización financiera y emocional.

Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary --- charité --- Église --- laïc --- mission --- investissement --- caridad --- Iglesia --- secular --- misión --- dedicación --- 1500-1999

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What is the role of love in opening and sustaining the temporal worlds we inhabit? One of the leading scholars in philosophy and the history of religious thought, Thomas A. Carlson here traces this question through Christian theology, twentieth-century phenomenological and deconstructive philosophy, and nineteenth-century individualism. Revising Augustine's insight that when we love a place, we dwell there in the heart, Carlson also pointedly resists lines of thought that seek to transcend loss and its grief by loving all things within the realm of the eternal. Through masterful readings of Heidegger, Derrida, Marion, Nancy, Emerson, and Nietzsche, Carlson shows that the fragility and sorrow of mortal existence in its transience do not, in fact, contradict love, but instead empower love to create a world.

Love --- Philosophy. --- Augustine, --- Augustine. --- Martin Heidegger. --- education. --- joy. --- loss. --- love. --- place. --- secular. --- sorrow. --- world.