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Time for secular studies?
AC Grayling, philosopher and author of The Good Book, a humanist bible, is launching a new university with some of the world’s most prominent atheist thinkers. This school year will also bring the world’s first academic journal “dedicated to the exploration of secularism and nonreligion.” After millennia of religious studies, is it time for universities also embrace secular studies?
Old ideas, new university
The only thing new about what Grayling and his colleagues are attempting to do is that they are openly admitting the ideological roots of their plans rather than couching them in a more open minded sounding rhetoric.
Secularism has reached a tipping point
The tide has turned in favor of Humanism and secular studies.
American campuses are already secular havens
At a significant number of American universities, secular studies are all we have.
God fills a need that secularism can not
At the end of my day, I choose God and not secularism. That decision is brings my soul, body and spirit into balance.
Faith has an open mind
It seems to me that the question of whether universities should embrace secular studies raises two issues for people of faith.
Critical thinking and the secular academy
Can one have an open discussion of secularism and spirituality within an academic context?
Why we need secularism
Call me agnostic on whether there should be a “secularist” university. However, count me wildly positive that the values of secularism be a component of all education.
Educational Advice for AC Grayling
There is an assumed secularism in many universities in the Western world.
Where are the women? University secular studies faculty looks a lot like religious studies faculty
Looking at the “professoriate” of the New College for Humanities line-up, I count 13 men and 1 woman. If the comparison is to a “seminary for nonbelievers,” the parallel is visually quite apt.
The academy responds to a growing secular America
Poll after poll shows that seculars -- men and women who live, effectively or overtly, without religion -- are one of America’s fastest growing groups.
Secularism long a feature of university life
To have a university composed of atheists to pursue a course in “secular studies” is redundant.
A religious and secular studies major
If students leave college with the same beliefs and perspectives they had when they entered, then they have mostly wasted four years and many dollars.
How secularism will help Christianity
Any rise in “secular studies” in colleges and universities will aid the church.
Religious ‘heritage’ on campus
Didn’t we already know that most of our universities are secular?
Birds do it, bees do it, now the secularese do it
Secularists, (atheists really), are following other ethnic and religious identity groups in using academia to create and/or shore up a particular cultural identity.
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