The Hidden Enlightenment

Humanism among US Latinos

Authors

  • Hector Avalos Iowa State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v20i1.3

Keywords:

humanism, Latinos, USA

Abstract

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Author Biography

  • Hector Avalos, Iowa State University

    Hector Avalos is Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University and a widely-read advocate of humanism. He received his PhD from Harvard University (1991) and is the author of numerous articles and books, including Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence (2005).

References

Avalos, Hector. Se puede saber si Dios existe? [Can we Know if God Exists?] (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2003).

Avalos, Hector. Strangers in our Own Land: Religion in U.S. Latina/o Literature (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005).

Avalos, Hector, editor. Introduction to the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience (Boston/Leiden: Brill, 2004).

Christian, B. Marie. Belief in Dialogue: U.S. Latina Writers Confront their Religious Heritage (New York: Other Press, 2005).

Kevane, Bridget. Profane and Sacred: Latino American Writers Reveal the Interplay of the Secular and Religious (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008).

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Published

2013-10-09

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2012)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Avalos, H. (2013). The Hidden Enlightenment: Humanism among US Latinos. Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, 20(1), 3-14. https://doi.org/10.1558/eph.v20i1.3