A Beliefnet excerpt from Susan Jacoby’s book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism focuses on the so-called Golden Age of Freethought, a period during the late 19th and early 20th centuries when freethinkers’ ideas became more broadly disseminated in the U.S., thanks particularly to popular orators such as Robert Ingersoll.

Jonathan Miller explored the history of disbelief in a BBC series in 2005.

A chapter on the Atheist movement’s history is included in Gordon Stein’s 1980 book An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism.

The Pluralism Project at Harvard University has a webpage explaining atheism and other secular ideologies.

Written by Robert Todd Carroll. Carroll explains topics in the supernatural, paranormal, and pseudo-scientific realms.

Written by Bill Cooke. Cooke provides a reference for key concepts, terms, and developments in the atheist, secularist, and humanist movements.

A March 9, 2012 article from Reuters is an introduction to socially responsible investing.

Kirk O. Hanson is Santa Clara University’s John Courtney Murray S.J. University Professor of Social Ethics. He is one of the pioneers of the business ethics field and taught business ethics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business for 23 years.

What may houses of worship do to advance political causes or candidates? By Ira Rifkin Freelance Writer The Church at Pierce Creek was a non-denominational, conservative Protestant congregation outside Binghamton, N.Y., until the Internal Revenue Service revoked its tax-exempt status for sponsoring a 1992 newspaper ad attacking then-presidential candidate Bill Clinton’s stands on abortion and […]