SELECTED READING

On Critical Topics Concerning the Emerging Post-Modern, Post-Secular, Post-Christian Age

OUR CULTURAL SITUATION

A Secular Age – Charles Taylor
The Meaning of the West – Don Cuppit
The Closing of the Western Mind – Charles Freeman
The Awakening: The Reopening of the Western Mind – Charles Freeman

The Closing of the American Mind – Alan Bloom

Thus Spoke Zarathustra – F. Nietzsche
Letter to a Christian Nation – Sam Harris

All Things Shining – Dreyfus & Kelly

Amythia – Loyal Rue

Emergentism – Brendan Graham Dempsey

Sexual Personae – Camile Paglia

On Roots – Simone Weil
The Evolution of the West – Nick Spencer

The Passion of the Western Mind – Richard Tarnas

The Enlightenment & Why it Still Matters – Anthony Pagden

The Secular Enlightenment – Margaret Jacob

The Secularization of the European Mind – Owen Chadwick

Phenomenology, Naturalism, and Science – Jack Reynolds

The Routledge Handbook of Liberal Naturalism – De Caro & Macarthar, Eds

Between Naturalism and Religion – Jurgen Habermas

After Virtue – Alasdair MacIntyre
Whose Justice? Which Rationality? – Alasdair MacIntyre

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self – Carl Trueman

The Abolition of Man – C.S. Lewis

Rational Man – Henry Veatch
The Moral Animal – Robert Wright

The Master and His Emissary – Iain McGilchrist

Zombies in Western Culture – John Vervaeke

The Selfhood of the Human Person – John F. Crosby
The Personalist Papers – John F. Crosby
The Person and the Common Good – Jacques Maritain
On the Problem of Empathy – Edith Stein

NATURALISM, EMERGENTISM, AND NATURE-BASED SPIRITUALITY

Why Does the World Exist? – Jim Holt

The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
Brief Answers to the Big Questions – Stephen Hawking

Nature is Enough – Loyal Rue
Religious Naturalism – Jerome Stone
The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence – Jerome Stone
The Demon Haunted World – Carl Sagan
Mind & Cosmos – Thomas Nagel

At Home in the Universe – Stuart Kauffman

The Romance of Reality – Bobby Azarian

Recapture the Rapture: Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That’s Lost its Mind – Jamie Wheal

Emergentism – Brendan Graham Dempsey

Incomplete Nature – Terrence Deacon

The Great Work – Thomas Berry
The Voice of the Earth – Theodore Roszak
SoulCraft – Bill Plotkin

The Salmon in the Spring – Jason Kirkey

The Spiral Dance – Starhawk

Spiritual Ecology – Llewellyn Vaughn Lee, ed

Mystery Teachings from the Living Earth – John Michael Greer

Gaia – James Loveluck

The Poetry of Mary Oliver

SEXUAL THEORY

Strange New World – Carl Trueman

What Wild Ecasty – John Heidenry

Make Love, Not War – David Allyn

Material Girls – Kathleen Stock

Feminism Against Progress – Mary Harrington

The Moral Defense of Homosexuality – Chris Meyers

Virtually Normal – Andrew Sullivan

Debating Same-Sex Marriage – Corvino & Gallagher, eds

Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination – Corvino, Anderson, Girgis, Eds

Same-Sex Marriage: Pro & Con – Andrew Sullivan, ed

The End of Gender – Debra Soh

Irreversible Damage – Abigail Shrier

Sexual Personae – Camile Paglia

From Shame to Sin – Kyle Harper

The Pleasure Principle – Michael Bronski

The Red Queen – Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature – Matt Ridley

Sex at Dawn – Ryan & Jetha

The Cast Against the Sexual Revolution – Louise Perry

The Nature of Love – Dietrich von Hildebrand

CONTEMPORARY IRISH CULTURE

The Course of Irish History – Mood & Martin, Eds

Explaining Irish Democracy – Bill Kissane

Ireland in the 20th Century – Tim Pat Coogan

Twentieth-Century Ireland – Dermot Keogh

Moral Monopoly: The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church in Ireland – Tom Inglis

A New Ireland – Niall O’Dowd

Modern Irish Culture – Clearly & Connolly, Eds

Understanding Contemporary Ireland – Bartley & Kitchin, Eds

Lesbian and Gay Visions of Ireland – O’Carrol & Collins, Eds

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland – Bradley & Valiulus, Eds

Self – Eilis Ward – Sireacht Series

Money – Connor McCabe – Sireacht Series

Public Sphere – Harry Browne – Sireacht Series

Commemoration – Heather Laird – Sireacht Series

Freedom? – Two Fuse – Sireacht Series

Sexual/Liberation – Michael Cronin – Sireacht Series

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– Steve Jobs
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