Description
Book SynopsisWhen the Secular Becomes Sacred: Religious Secular Humanism and its Effects Upon America's Public Learning Institutions is an analysis of American K-16 public learning institutions from a unique perspective.
Secular teachings, such as social-emotional learning, and sexual and identity philosophies, are behind movements to capture the minds and hearts of America's students. Contemporary learning institutions resemble places of worship in several ways. This book will explain how this is the case. From educational philosophy to classroom practices, this book exposes tactical intersections between secular humanism and religion.
In today's secular culture there is strong evidence to support the notion that worship of the self, the individual, has usurped the historically sacred place reserved for a transcendent deity. The fact is that this worship of the individual is certainly more fashionable and attractive than traditional orthodoxy or evangelical theology, in a today's
Table of Contents
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Humanism: Secular and Religious
Chapter 2: Education as Religion
Chapter 3: The God of Self
Chapter 4: Cracks in the Ivory Towers
Chapter 5: Seeking Converts
Chapter 6: Is Public Education Too Far Gone?
Index
About the Author
