Next meeting Saturday, September 19 10:30am - Noon in Culver City Email humanistclubla@gmail.com for location

building a humanist community

In 2022, Tom Hamilton and Bronwen Jones began to explore the great humanists throughout world history sharing with friends and acquaintances once a month. We discuss ideas and history with a special emphasis on music. We often learn about humanist thinkers and traditions which are not well known in the United States. Bronwen is a humanist chaplain and musician. Tom is a physicist.

PAST READING CLUBS

(Click title to download PDF of reading)

I Ram Mohan Roy, Indian humanism early 1800s
II Rabindrinath Tagore v Mahatma Gandhi, when to compromise with religion
III Bhimrao Ambedkar, Dalit leader disguises humanism as new religion
IV Periyar, Militant Tamil atheism
V Avicenna, Albiruni, Central Asian humanism of the 1000s
VI Averroes, Al-Andalus, Spain 1100s
VII Neo-Confucianism – Sung dynasty humanism
VIII Hu Shih – China in early 20 th century
IX Margaret Fuller – New England Romanticism ~1850
X Mexican revolution, 1910
XI Brazil, Paolo Freire et al.
XII Brazil, Caetano Veloso, music
XIII Walter Rodney, Caribbean 1960s
XIV Ethiopia, Hatatas, 1600s
XV Ethiopia, contemporary politics
XVI Jose Rizal, Philippines
XVII Masaryk, Czech humanism
XVIII Capek, humanism and AI
XIX Hasek, Good Soldier Schweik
XX Spanish Inquisition, Spanish humanist opposition XXI Kartini, Indonesian Feminism XXII Huda Shaarawi, Egyptian Feminism XXIII Lufti al-Sayyid family, Humanism vs the Muslim Brotherhood XXIV Vietnamese Humanism XXV Iranian Humanism XXVI Tang Dynasty: Should Buddhists Pay Taxes? XXVII Indian Atheism: 1500 BC - 2025 (Now) XXVIII Russian Humanism and California XXIX M.N. Roy and Modern Indian Humanism XXX Vaccination in the Spanish Empire XXXI Japanese Humanism XXXII Korean Humanism XXXIII Lucian, Syrian Comedian of the Ancient World XXXIV Juana Gorriti, Argentine Feminist Writer XXXV King Mongkut the Great, Buddhism and Science in Thailand XXXVI Young Ottomans - Can Humanism Save a Failing Empire? XXXVII Bertrand Russell and China

CONTACT US

  • The Humanist Reading Club meets the third Saturday of the month, 10:30am until noon. in Culver City.
  • If you would like to attend, please email us and we will send you the information.