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Accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
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Streams: All of Secular Worldviews Freethought Agnosticism Secularism Spiritual But Not Religious Atheism Humanism
Ludwig Feuerbach argues in The Essence of Christianity (1841) that theology is anthropology: God is human nature projected and worshipped. The book turns a generation, Marx and Engels among them, and gives atheism its humanist form, religion explained as man's own essence estranged from himself.
Felix Adler founds the New York Society for Ethical Culture in 1876 on the motto deed, not creed: ethical life and social reform without theological tests. Its schools and settlements become the institutional seed of organized humanism in America.
Thirty-four signers, John Dewey among them, publish the first Humanist Manifesto in 1933: religious humanism, holding that the universe is self-existing, that man is part of nature, and that ethics is autonomous. The document names the movement the associations then organize.
The American Humanist Association is founded in 1941, gathering the humanist fellowships and the Humanist Manifesto's signers into one national body. Its Humanist of the Year awards and its journal carry the humanist stream into American public life.
