July 15, 2013

 

  Volume 17 - 1997

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Fall, 1997 - Volume 17, Number 4

Cosmic Humanism for the Space Age — Paul Kurtz

Frontlines

Letters

Sexual Freedom

• Introduction — Timothy J. Madigan
• A Feminist Defense of Pornography — Wendy McElroy
• Women and British Porn Laws — Cherie Matrix
• Who Owns Prostitution - and Why? — Lacey Sloan
• Homosexual Rights: Why Humanism Cares — Rob A. Tielman
• How Women Have Changed Sex — Vern L. Bullough
• Sex and God: Is Religion Twisted? — James A. Haught

Islam and Women's Rights

• Introduction — Norm R. Allen, Jr.
• A Declaration of the Rights of Women in Islamic Societies
• Islam's Shame —- Ibn Warraq
• Is Islam Secularizable? — Sadik J. al-Azm
• The Songs of Freedom — Taslima Nasrin

Getting a Humanist Education — Joe Nickell

Is Faith Good for You? — Hector Avalos

Why I Am a Secular Humanist — Wole Soyinka

Great Minds

• Letters from the Earth — Mark Twain

God on Trial

• Frenchy's Con — Michael Martin

Book Reviews

• Trying to Save God — Michael Martin
• The Crisis of Catholic Sex — Vern L. Bullough
• Porn: A Business Like Any Other — Molleen Matsumura
• Stories from Pro-Sex Feminists — Wendy McElroy
• Matter Matters — H. James Birx
• Dueling Visions — Rob Boston

Humanism at Large — Matt Cherry

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Summer, 1997 - Volume 17, Number 3

The Need to Reach Out — Paul Kurtz

Frontlines

Letters

Cloning Humans

• Introduction — Timothy J. Madigan
• Declaration in Defense of Cloning and the Integrity of Scientific Research — The International Academy of Humanism
• Thinking Clearly About Clones — Richard Dawkins
• Taboos Without a Clue — Ronald A. Lindsay
• No Fear — Richard T. Hull

Exposing the Religious Right's 'Secret' Weapon — Gil Alexander-Moegerie

Can Science Prove that Prayer Works? — Hector Avalos

Morality Requires God ... or Does It? — Theodore Schick, Jr.

Why I Am a Secular Humanist: An Interview with Albert Ellis

When Humanists Embrace the Arts — James Herrick

What's Wrong with Relativism — Lewis Vaughn

Secularists, Rise Up - and Celebrate! — Roger E. Greeley

Great Minds

• Absurdities of the Gods — Robert G. Ingersoll

God on Trial

• God for a Day! — Michael Martin

Book Reviews

• Who Is a Jew? — Paul Kurtz
• Reincarnation Undressed — Martin Gardner
• The Tragic Consequences of Faith — David Mackmiller
• Humanist Poetry for the Ages — Rob Boston
• Imaginative Atheism — Finnegeir Hiorth

Humanism at Large — Matt Cherry

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Spring, 1997 - Volume 17, Number 2

Seeing Things

• Tampa Bay's `Virgin Mary Apparition' — Gary P. Posner
• Those Tearful Icons — Joe Nickell

The Honest Agnostic: Battling Demons of the Mind — James A. Haught

Notes From The Editor

• Surviving Bypass and Enjoying the Exuberant Life: A Personal Account — Paul Kurtz

The Freedom To Inquire

• Introduction — George D. Smith
• Atheism and Inquiry — David Berman
• Inquiry: A Core Concept of John Dewey's Philosophy — Larry Hickman
• Freely Ye Have Inquired? — Skipp Porteous
• Family Friendly Libraries — Robert Riehemann
• A Humanist's Doubts About the Information Revolution — Mario Bunge

The Virtues of `The Ethics of Belief': W. K. Clifford's Continuing Relevance — Timothy J. Madigan

National Character, Collective Guilt, and Original Sin - The Goldhagen Controversy — Edmund D. Cohen

On Witchcraft

• Witch-Children - Then and Now — Hans Sebald
• Children, Witches, Demons, and Cultural Reality — Phillips Stevens, Jr.

The Incredible Flimflams of Margaret Rowen, Part 3: The Comic Pratfalls of Robert Reid — Martin Gardner

Reviews

• Those with Courage to Doubt — Robert Sherrill
• The Latest from Quine on Logic and Language — John Shosky

News And Views

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Winter, 1996/97 - Volume 17, Number 1

Euthanasia Policy At The Crossroads

• Assisted Suicide: Will the Supreme Court Respect the Autonomy Rights of Dying Patients? — Ronald A. Lindsay
• Euthanasia in The Netherlands — Pieter V. Admiraal

So Close And Yet So Far

• Catholic Primate Clings to Evolution — H. James Birx
• The Pope, Evolution, and the Soul — Mario Bunge

Humanist World Meets in Mexico City — Matt Cherry

Humanism In Eastern Europe

• Humanists Meet in Poland and Russia — Timothy J. Madigan
• The Polish Church as an Enemy of the Open Society — Andrzej Flis

By Any Means Necessary — Vivian Lindermayer

Student Freethought Group Embarks on Productive Path — Derek Araujo

The Need for a Universal Declaration of Human Values —Abe Solomon

Camp Quest '96 — Vern Uchtman

Breaking the Last Taboo — James A. Haught

The Infomedia Revolution: Opportunities for Global Humanism — Paul Kurtz

The Immortal David Hume — Nigel Bruce

Lucy Stone: Woman of Firsts — Lois K. Porter

The Re-Discovery of Ludwig Feuerbach — Van A. Harvey

Dr. Persinger's God Machine — Ian Cotton

Viewpoints

• Three Ways to Beat Religious Political Extremists — Skipp Porteous

Reviews

• Hitler's Jewish Genocide and Goldhagen's Holocaustbabble — Hans Askenasy
• Feminism Challenged — Mary McGreevy
• Homosexuality in the Mormon Church — Vern L. Bullough
• Twinkle, Twinkle — Adam L. Carley
• The History of Freethought — Joe Barnhart
• The Search for Connection Between Two Worlds: An Odyssey — Jeannette Lowen

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