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Understanding Humanism is an easy-to-read and informative overview of the beliefs, practices, and values of humanism as a non-religious worldview. This short and lively book explores humanism both as a broad historical tradition of thought and as a stance embodied in organised institutions. It sets out clearly and systematically the beliefs and values of humanism as well as the reality and personal experience of living as a humanist today.
Questions discussed in this book include:
Understanding Humanism provides a reliable and easily digestible introduction to the field. By exploring these questions and inviting readers to engage with the arguments, it serves as the ideal textbook for those approaching the topic of humanism for the first time.
Author: Andrew Copson, Luke Donnellan, Richard Norman
ISBN-10: 0367506041
ISBN-13: 9780367506049
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/30/2022
Pages: 217
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
Andrew Copson has been Chief Executive of Humanists UK since 2009 and President of Humanists International since 2015. A former director of the Religious Education Council, the Values Education Council, and the National Council for Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education. With Alice Roberts, he is author of the The Sunday Times bestseller The Little Book of Humanism (2020), the author of Secularism: a very short introduction (2019), and editor, with A.C. Grayling, of The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Humanism (2015).
Luke Donnellan is the Director of Understanding Humanism at Humanists UK, where he manages their programme of teacher training and education resources. He has worked as a primary school teacher and as a TV producer of video resources for teachers and students. He has written two online courses on humanism: Introducing humanism and Humanist lives.
Richard Norman was formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Kent, UK. He is a member of Kent Humanists and a Patron of Humanists UK. His book On Humanism is also published by Routledge (2nd edition 2012).
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