My current and up-next reads! Top Row is up next, Bottom row is #AmReading.

Particularly excited to be reading this critical biography of Gloria Richardson, not least because it emphasizes that Gloria Richardson roots her #CivilRights activism in secular humanist theory. Fitzgerald even references Anthony Pinn's work! (Noteworthy: I found this book through a # BlackFriday post, I believe.)

#BlackHumanism #SecularHumanism #BlackAtheism #Bookstodon

@fulanigirl @billyanders Anthony Pinn has some absolutely fantastic classic works on this: Terror and Triumph: The Nature of Black Religion is a cornerstone work, along with Why, Lord?: Suffering and Evil in Black Theology. Plus his extremely informative Varieties of African American Religious Experience.

Make no mistake, these are as far from defenses of Black Christianity as you get, they are critical analyses within the academic discipline of religion and theology. Pinn himself is an #atheist and develops a strongly Black Humanist theory in his also excellent The End of God-Talk: An African-American Humanist Theology.

#BlackHumanism #BlackAtheism

On pressing the humanist movement’s old guard to embrace change

“One of the most important things I’ve learned is when to walk away. And that ain’t easy. You can press the sale so many times, but at some point, you have to be like, You know what? This opportunity cost is not worth it.”

-Nadya Dutchin, ED of #AmericanHumanistAssociation #AHA in conversation with Dr. Anthony B Pinn

#BlackHumanism #BlackAtheism #Humanism #Atheism #HumanistMovement

https://onlysky.media/podcast/when-to-walk-when-to-fight-nadya-dutchin/

(5/8) That general “#intersectional” principle has begun to be the driving force behind everything that #AmericanAtheists is working on, and they are #DoingTheWork. Assiduously. They have become a clearing house and gatherer of statistical (sociological) data on #BlackAtheism, #WomenInAtheism, #Queerness in Atheism, #Latinx in Atheism, and building more on that, and therefore on the various potential combinations and intersections of all of these.

(5/8) That general “#intersectional” principle has begun to be the driving force behind everything that #AmericanAtheists is working on, and they are #DoingTheWork. Assiduously. They have become a clearing house and gatherer of statistical (sociological) data on #BlackAtheism, #WomenInAtheism, #Queerness in Atheism, #Latinx in Atheism, and building more on that, and therefore on the various potential combinations and intersections of all of these.