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Recent Select Publications

Isis Current Bibliography. Editor. Vol. 93 (2002), 94 (2003), 95 (2004).

“Secular Humanism in the United States.” In Dictionary of the History of Ideas. New York: Scribners, 2004.

“Deism,” “Postmodernism,” “Secular Humanism,” and “Social Construction of Science.” The History of Science and Religion in the Western Tradition: An Encyclopedia, ed. Gary B. Ferngren, Edward J. Larson, and Darrel W. Amundsen. New York: Garland, 2000.

“The Academy and the Pulpit: 1930s-Style Humanism at Columbia University,” Religious Humanism 32, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter/Spring 1998) 29-50.

“In Defense of Science: Secular Intellectuals and the Failure of Nerve Thesis,” Religious Humanism 30, nos. 1 & 2 (Winter/Spring 1996): 30-39.