About this episode

Daniel Dacombe interviews Phil Zuckerman about secular studies and the lives of the nonreligious.

Humanist Canada's Daniel Dacombe sits down with sociologist and author Phil Zuckerman. Phil Zuckerman is a sociology professor at Pitzer College, where he studied the lives of the nonreligious for years before founding a Department of Secular Studies, the first academic program in the nation dedicated to exclusively studying secular culture and the sociological consequences of America's fastest-growing "faith."

People in this episode

Host: Daniel Dacombe

Guest: Phil Zuckerman

Topics covered

• secular studies
• sociology
• nonreligious culture
• faith
• education

Keywords

• secular culture

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pitzer College

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