THE HUMANIST INSTITUTE
Class X

Jone Johnson & Harvey Sarles, Mentors

1. Introduction to Modern Humanism

• John Dewey, A Common Faith
• Julian Huxley, Evolutionary Humanism
• Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian
• Edward Ericson, The humanist way: an introduction to ethical humanist religion
• Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Manifesto I & II
• Paul Kurtz, The Humanist Alternative
• Howard Radest, The Devil & Secular Humanism
• Corliss Lamont, The Philosophy of Humanism

2. Humanist Histories and Organizations

• David Robinson, The Unitarians and the Universalists
• Howard Radest, Toward Common Ground
• Sherwin Wine, Judaism Beyond God
• Mason Olds, American Religious Humanism
• James Turner, Without God, Without Creed
• Gerald Larue, Free Thought Across the Centuries

3. Gender issues

• Carol Tavris, The Mismeasure of Woman
• Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice

4. Beliefs and Ideologies, Humanist and Non-Humanist.

• Bruce Lawrence, Defenders of God
• Arvind Sharma, Our Religions
• Roger Finke & Rodney Stark, The churching of America, 1776-1990: winners and losers in our religious economy
• Michael Shermer, How We Believe
• William James, Varieties of Religious Experience

5. Family Issues

• Augustus Y. Napier with Carl A. Whitaker, The Family Crucible
• Lillian B. Rubin, Intimate strangers: men and women together
• Arlene Skolnick, Embattled paradise: the American family in an age of uncertainty
• Lillian B. Rubin, Families on the fault line: America's working class speaks about the family, the economy, race, and ethnicity

6. Science, postmodernism

• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
• Robert Wright, The Moral Animal
• Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
• Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works

7. Ethical problems, economics, government

• Stewart Ewen, PR!
• Jonathon Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
• Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
• Gene Outka & John Reeder, Jr., (eds.) Prospects for a Common Morality
• Drucker Foundation, The Community of the Future

8. Ethics/ moral development/ human development

• John Dewey, Democracy and Education
• James W. Fowler, Stages of Faith
• Arthur Dobrin, Being good and doing right: readings in moral development
• Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

9. Leadership, ceremonials and rituals

• Ronald A. Heifetz, Leadership Without Easy Answers
• Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard (eds), The Leader of the Future
• Robert K. Greenleaf, Servant Leadership
• Roger Fisher & William Urey, Getting to Yes
• Sherwin Wine, Celebrations
• Algernon Black, Without Burnt Offerings