The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain
Since the turn of the 20th century, Humanism has become a major force in British life. The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain sees Callum G. Brown, David Nash and Charlie Lynch, world-leading…
Specifikacia The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain
Since the turn of the 20th century, Humanism has become a major force in British life. The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain sees Callum G. Brown, David Nash and Charlie Lynch, world-leading historians of modern Humanism, explore the ways in which Humanists rose to meet the ethical challenges facing modern Britain.Brown, Nash and Lynch examine how Humanism grew from a small Victorian rationalist religion to a group campaigning for freedom of conscience and speech, and reduction in religious privilege, presenting a progressive social reform agenda to the nation. In recent decades Humanists have become famed for providing tens of thousands of people with the Humanist celebration of marriages, baby-namings and funerals. The book analyses the Humanist impact through contributions to human rights and equality discourse and legislation covering: freedom of speech; homosexual