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
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
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
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