Post Secular: Science, Humanism and the Future of Faith - Tapa blanda

Sinopsis

How modern life has transformed major faiths worldwide in the twenty-first century – and what new research in neuroscience, human genetics and the socioeconomic trends of today can tell us about upcoming spiritual beliefs of tomorrow. Ultimately, the "future" of religion is approaching far more quickly than many of us think. The greatest mysteries of life – who we are, where we came from, the nature of reality and more – are fast losing their power to support supernatural faith. Human evolution, brain function and how we tend to operate will soon be considered common knowledge in more parts of the world than ever before. We are finally developing a veritable science of how spiritual nonbelief seems to work and have gained crucial insight into why greater proportions of the world are becoming nonreligious and pro-secular. These are game-changing developments. Modern life is not the environment traditional faith is used to thriving in. Today's hyper-connected, science-heavy, internet-of-everything transition will forever change our species and the way we see ourselves in the cosmos. This book offers a vision of that future. Readers of Post Secular will explore the ongoing dilution of supernaturalism around the world; a process completely changing what we currently call secular. In this timely and insightful work, Marc Schaus investigates the evidence we have for long-term leanings toward a next-gen spirituality around the world – and how "religion" will function when secular life becomes the new normal. "Anyone entering the literature for the first time on why people believe in God, commit to religion, and rely on faith can be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed in a miasma of ideas, hypotheses, theories, and just-so stories, and this is just from a secular and scientific perspective. Marc Schaus's well-organized and highly readable distillation of this literature, Post Secular, gives readers an important overview of what we know today about these vital matters of the human condition.” —Michael Shermer (Publisher Skeptic magazine, columnist Scientific American, Presidential Fellow Chapman University, and author of Heavens on Earth, The Moral Arc, and The Believing Brain) "Marc Schaus’s Post Secular is profoundly optimistic, imaginative, and sweeping even as it well grounded in realism and practicality. Most of all, it is engaging, engrossing reading. The chapter on the future is worth the price of the book: a creative science fiction writer would be proud to claim the century-forward description it paints, but the thoughtful academic analyst of science and religion would also happily claim it if she could." —Ed Buckner (Former President of American Atheists and lead author of In Freedom We Trust: An Atheist Guide to Religious Liberty) Marc Schaus is a Canadian author who has recently published his first book about the growth of secularism and spiritual nonbelief around the world. Marc has previously completed research in neuroscience labs mapping out neural networks in the brain – and has also appeared in Free Inquiry magazine and in digital print on Patheos and The Huffington Post. His primary research focus, now, is how the transition from belief to nonbelief "works" in the human brain and why twenty-first century life is creating a cognitive advantage for secular, so-called superstitionless belief systems.

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