“Splitters!”: Lessons from Monty Python for Secular Organizations in the US

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. “I Know It When I See It:” Humanism, Secularism, and Religious Taxonomy 13
6. Mid-Nineteenth-Century Secularism as Modern Secularity 31
7. “Splitters!”: Lessons from Monty Python for Secular Organizations in the US 57
8. Recognizing and Categorizing the Secular: Polysecularity and Agendas of Polysecularism 87
9. Organizational Variation in the American Nonreligious Community 113
10. Building Bridges in the Shadows of Steeples: Atheist Community and Identity Online 135
11. Communal Secularity: Congregational Work at the Sunday Assembly 151
12. Rejecting Rejection Identities: Negotiating Positive Non-religiosity at the Sunday Assembly 171
13. Inside The Minds and Movement of America’s Nonbelievers: Organizational Functions, (Non)Participation, and Attitudes Toward Religion 191
14. A Typology of Organized Atheists and Secularists in Germany and the United States 221
15. Your Wedding, Your Way: Personalized, Nonreligious Weddings through the Universal Life Church 253
16. Doing Death Without Deity: Constructing Nonreligious Tools at the End of Life 279
17. Old Questions and New Issues for Organized Secularism in the United States 301
18. Index 319