THE HUMANIST INSTITUTE
Class VIII

Robert Tapp and Carol Wintermute, Mentors

1. Introduction to Humanist Philosophy

• Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian
• Julian Huxley, Evolutionary Humanism
• John Dewey, A Common Faith
• Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism
• Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Alternative
• Paul Kurtz, Humanist Manifestos I and II
• Edward Ericson, The Humanist Way
• Howard Radest, The Devil and Secular Humanism

2. Humanist Histories and Organizations

• David Robinson, The Unitarians and Universalists
• Peter Williams, Unitarianism and Universalism
• Mason Olds, American Religious Humanism (Rev. ed.)
• Catherine Albanese, Transcendentalism
• William McGuire King, Liberalism
• Howard Radest, Toward Common Ground
• George Axtelle, John Dewey and the Genius of American Civilization
• Edmund Wilson, The Emergence and History of the American Humanist Association
• Gerald Larue, Freethought Across the Centuries: Toward a New Age of Enlightenment
• Martin Marty, Free Thought and Ethical Movements
• Melvin B. Endy, Jr., The Society of Friends
• Sherwin Wine, Judaism Beyond God
• Jacob Neusner, Judaism in Contemporary America
• Abraham J. Karp, The Emergence of an American Judaism
• Deborah Dash Moore, Social History of American Judaism
• Nona Coxhead, The Relevance of Bliss: A Contemporary Exploration of Mystic Experience
• Andrew Greeley, Religious Change in America
• Immanuel Kant, What Is Enlightenment?
• Catherine Keller and J. A. Columbo, Two North American Political Theologies

3. Beliefs and Ideologies, Humanist and Non-Humanist

The Palestinian Heritage

• Gerald Larue, Ancient Myths and Modern Life
• Robert Funk et al., The Complete New Testament
• Morton Smith and Joseph Hoffman (eds.), What the Bible Really Says
• Willis Barnstone (ed.),The Other Bible

Alternative Genealogies

• Riane Eisler, Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body, New Paths to Power and Love

Contemporary Variants

• Alan Ryan, John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism
• Paul Kurtz, The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal
• Ernest Cassara, The Enlightenment in America

Religious Studies Perspectives

• Daniel Pals, Seven Theories of Religion

Fictive Treatments of Some of These Issues

• Aldous Huxley, Island

4. Sexism, Gender and Family Issues

• Alice Rossi (ed.), Gender and the Life Course
• Carol Tavris, The Mismeasure of Woman
• Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice
• Arlene Skolnick, Embattled Paradise
• Rosemary Ruether, Gaia and God

5. "Race" Issues: Multiculturalism, Ethnicism, Racism, Oppression

• Robert Hughes, The Culture of Complaint.
• William Ryan, Blaming the Victim,
• Lewis R. Gordon (Editor), T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting , Renée White (eds.), Fanon : A Critical Reader
• Joel Kahn, Culture, Multiculture, Postculture
• David Theo Goldberg (ed.), Multiculturalism : A Critical Reader
• Nathan Glazer, We Are All Multiculturalists Now
• Paulo Freire, Robert R. Barr (Translator), Pedagogy of Hope: Reliving Pedagogy of the Oppressed
• Todd Gitlin, The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars

6. Science Issues; Postmodernism

• Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World
• Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science
• John Brockman, The Third Culture
• Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything
• Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden

7. Ethics

• David E. Cooper (ed), Ethics: The Classic Readings
• James Gouinlock (ed), The Moral Writings of John Dewey
• Robert Kegan, The Evolving Self
• Arthur Dobrin, Ethical People and How They Get to be That Way.
• Edward A. Frost (ed), With Purpose and Principle: Essays About the Seven Principles of Unitarian Universalism.

8. Ethics: Social Dimensions

• James Gouinlock (ed.), The Moral Writings of John Dewey, Section 7
• Gene Outka and John Reeder, Jr., (eds.), Prospects for a Common Morality
• Hans Küng, A Global Ethic for a Global Politics and Economics

9. Leadership; Ceremonials and Rituals

• Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers
• Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity: The Inner Path of eLadership
• Drucker Foundation, The Leader of the Future
• Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness
• Roger Fisher and William Ury, Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In
• Sherwin Wine, Celebrations
• Corliss Lamont, A Humanist Wedding
• Corlis Lamont, A Humanist Funeral
• Algernon D. Black, Without Burnt Offerings