Organized Secularism in the United States : New Directions in Research.
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
- Religion and Its Others Ser. ; v.6 .
Intro -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- "I Know It When I See It:" Humanism, Secularism, and Religious Taxonomy -- Mid-Nineteenth-Century Secularism as Modern Secularity -- "Splitters!": Lessons from Monty Python for Secular Organizations in the US -- Recognizing and Categorizing the Secular: Polysecularity and Agendas of Polysecularism -- Organizational Variation in the American Nonreligious Community -- Building Bridges in the Shadows of Steeples: Atheist Community and Identity Online -- Communal Secularity: Congregational Work at the Sunday Assembly -- Rejecting Rejection Identities: Negotiating Positive Non-religiosity at the Sunday Assembly -- A Typology of Organized Atheists and Secularists in Germany and the United States -- Your Wedding, Your Way: Personalized, Nonreligious Weddings through the Universal Life Church -- Doing Death Without Deity: Constructing Nonreligious Tools at the End of Life -- Old Questions and New Issues for Organized Secularism in the United States -- Index.