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Is secular humanism a religion?

Rafael Palomino (Complutense): Legal Dimensions of Secularism: Challenges and Problems. Craig Calhoun on religion’s many powers: An excerpt from The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, with chapters by Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West. The introduction to The Joy of Secularism: 11 Essays for How We Live Now. A review of The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism by Paul Cliteur. Disenchantment and the mind-dependence of the moral: How does secularism crowd values out of our picture of the world? An interview with Richard Dawkins about the shortcomings of religion, the grandeur of reality and the God Gene. Unreasonable Doubt: The reasons for unbelief are more complex than many atheists let on. A review of The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations into the Existence of the Soul. Damon Linker reviews The Belief Instinct: The Psychology of Souls, Destiny, and the Meaning of Life by Jesse Bering. In trying to make religion sound more logical and scientific, are educated Indians actually having a crisis of faith? 200 years ago Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing The Necessity of Atheism; Jonathan Ree reassesses the romantic poet’s rationalism. From Arion, how did God get started? Far from providing aid and comfort to those who seek evidence for a Creator, the quantum computer universe makes not only the existence of a Creator unnecessary, it makes it unlikely. A review of The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism by ST Joshi. Is secular humanism a religion? Andrew Hartman investigates. A review of The Errors of Atheism by J. Angelo Corlett. What would “evidence” for God look like? Bernard Schweizer on why some people hate God. Why would (otherwise intelligent) scholars believe in "religion"? Pascal Boyer wants to know.