{"id":144,"date":"2007-09-24T18:09:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2007\/09\/24\/american-humanism-and-buddhism-seeki"},"modified":"2007-09-24T18:09:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:09:39","slug":"american-humanism-and-buddhism-seeking-community-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/2007\/09\/24\/american-humanism-and-buddhism-seeking-community-and-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"American Humanism and Buddhism: Seeking Community and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted to this blog much in the last few months, mainly because news about the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard<\/a> now gets posted on our new newsfeed section<\/a>, and my own editorial commentary<\/a> I now mostly post at “On Faith<\/a>“, the Newsweek magazine and Washington Post site on religion.<\/p>\n

But occasionally I do come across articles I just want to make a brief comment about. Here is a great one at a very interesting site, religionwriter.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article details the predicament of American Buddhism, as it too often finds itself disconnected from community, lacking cultural frameworks that would make it sustainable, and failing to connect to a new generation. I find it interesting first because this could very well have been my predicament had I continued with my interest, around age 18-20 or so, of becoming a Buddhist Priest. But also because the situation in many ways mirrors that of Humanism, and of where the current rise in atheism will end up a generation from now unless we develop more sustainable Humanist and atheist community institutions.<\/p>\n

Perhaps more on this topic to come, from me. But what do you think? Do you see any parallels between American Buddhists as depicted here, and Humanists and\/or atheists? Any lessons for us to learn?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted to this blog much in the last few months, mainly because news about the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard now gets posted on our new newsfeed section, and my own editorial commentary I now mostly post at “On Faith“, the Newsweek magazine and Washington Post site on religion. But occasionally I do come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/humanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}