Religious humanism

Religious humanism combines human-centered ethics with religious community, ritual, or practice. It may be theistic or non-theistic and emphasizes human welfare, dignity, and responsibility.

Unitarian Universalism: A liberal religious tradition whose congregations draw on diverse sources and affirm shared ethical commitments. Many congregations provide a contemporary setting for humanist ethics within religious community.
Humanism: A broad family of outlooks that emphasizes human capacities, dignity, and the value of human life. Religious humanism belongs to this wider tradition of human-centered thought.
Ethics: The systematic study of principles concerning right and wrong conduct and the good life. Religious humanist practice depends on ethical reasoning about human needs and responsibilities.
Humanist chaplaincy: Pastoral and spiritual care offered by humanists in settings such as hospitals, universities, and the military. It applies humanist values to care within institutions that commonly provide religious chaplaincy.
Ethical Culture: A humanist movement that organizes communities around ethical living, often without requiring religious belief. It makes ethical community central while treating traditional theology as optional.
Religious Humanist Association: An American organization founded in 1939 to support religious humanists and ethical culture communities. Its founding formalized a network for religious humanist congregations and ideas.
Humanism and its aspirations: A 1933 essay by Raymond Bragg that explains the aims and principles of the first Humanist Manifesto. It articulates the movement's early vision of human-centered religious life.
Ethical Society: A local community affiliated with the Ethical Culture movement, gathering for ethical reflection and social action. Ethical societies show how regular communal life can be organized around humanist principles.
Religious naturalism: A religious orientation that finds sacred meaning in the natural world without requiring supernatural beliefs. It illustrates how religious practice can accompany a non-supernatural worldview.
Humanist Manifesto I: A 1933 statement that presented a religious form of humanism grounded in naturalism and human responsibility. It explicitly framed humanism as a religious outlook rather than only a secular philosophy.

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