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Provides a balanced approach for understanding an enlightened, sympathetic, and relevant secularism for our lives. From various perspectives - philosophy, evolutionary biology, primate study, Darwinian thinking, poetry, and even bird-watching - this title examines the possibilities that secularism offers for achieving a condition of fullness.

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[T]he book valuably works over middle ground, the space vacated by both dogmatic religionists and dogmatic atheists. It is tolerant of, and even interested in, the varieties of religious practice, and maintains an engaged and equitable tone of voice. We might call this the New Secularism... Essays ... by Adam Phillips (on helplessness) and Rebecca Stott (on Darwinian wonderment), make for a nicely prismatic collection, in which the contributors happily pursue their own interests, and are often at their most secular when they're not trying especially hard to be. The book naturally radiates outward from its editorial theme as an ideal medieval town might spread outward--from a relaxed and unpoliced center. -- James Wood, New Yorker

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George Levine is professor emeritus of English at Rutgers University and the founder and former director of the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. His many books include Darwin and the Novelists and Darwin Loves You , and Darwin the Writer .

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