CSUN Lecture to Provide Insight on Being an Atheist in America

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Phil Zuckerman, Ph.D.

A Sociologist’s Research on the Lives of Atheists and Agnostics

Phil Zuckerman, Ph.D.Phil Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the author of several books, including Living the Secular Life (Penguin, 2014), Faith No More (Oxford, 2011), and Society Without God (NYU, 2008). He has also edited several books, including Atheism and Secularity (Praeger, 2010) and The Social Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois (Pine Forge, 2004). He writes a regular blog for Psychology Today titled “The Secular Life,” and he also writes for the Huffington Post. In 2011, Phil founded the first Secular Studies department in the nation

Carmen Ramos Chandler
on October 21, 2015

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution preserves Americans’ right to practice – or not practice — the religion of their choice. Yet, politicians and community leaders regularly invoke “God” as they go about their business.

Secular studies scholar Phil Zuckerman will explore what it is like to be an atheist or an agnostic in the United States, where religion plays such a dominant role, as part of California State University, Northridge’s Richard W. Smith Lecture Series in Cultural Studies on Wednesday, Nov. 4.

The lecture, hosted by CSUN’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. in the Whitsett Room Sierra Hall 451, on the west side of the campus located at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.

“The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences is excited to offer the prestigious 2015 Richard Smith Lecture featuring Phil Zuckerman’s presentation on the perspectives of nonreligious Americans, addressing questions such as, ‘How one can live a moral life without religion?’” said administrative fellow and Department of Psychology professor Sheila Grant.

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