"Religious freedom is a cherished American value," writes David Niose in his new book, Nonbeliever Nation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), "but religious predominance is not." Published in July, the book takes the reader through a history of secularism in the United States and renders the powerful rise of the conservative religious right in sharp detail. But what makes the book groundbreaking is Niose's survey of the growing number of Americans who call themselves secularists, humanists, atheists, freethinkers, and skeptics-in general, the nonbelievers who have been organizing and growing as a force to be reckoned with, namely by the religious right that continues to impose its dogmatic agenda upon the nation. An attorney who is also the president of the American Humanist Association and author of a humanist-themed blog for Psychology Today, Niose is perfectly poised to check and report on the pulse of the current secular zeitgeist. Richard Dawkins characterizes the book as "simultaneously disturbing and reassuring" and Michael Shermer calls it "The Feminist Mystique of this movement, destined to be a classic in freedom literature."
MORE: http://thehumanist.org/july-august-2012/nonbeliever-nation-the-rise-of-secular-americans/
