# Secular Spirituality

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Category: Religion
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:16.374Z
Tags: religion, secular, spirituality

## Summary

A growing category of modern life: people who have left, or never joined, organised religion, but who pursue contemplative practice, ethical commitment, and a sense of meaning that earlier generations would have called religious. The "spiritual but not religious." The seculars-with-a-practice. The post-Christian, post-Jewish, post-anything seekers who do not want the institutions but do want the depth. Key sections include: Secular Spirituality.; Opening What this is.; Chapter I Defining the territory.; Chapter II The rise of the "nones."; Chapter III Where it came from.; Chapter IV Mindfulness.; Chapter V Secular Buddhism.; Chapter VI The Stoic revival.; Chapter VII Sam Harris.; Chapter VIII Alain de Botton..

## Slide Outline

1. Secular Spirituality.
2. Opening What this is.
3. Chapter I Defining the territory.
4. Chapter II The rise of the "nones."
5. Chapter III Where it came from.
6. Chapter IV Mindfulness.
7. Chapter V Secular Buddhism.
8. Chapter VI The Stoic revival.
9. Chapter VII Sam Harris.
10. Chapter VIII Alain de Botton.
11. Chapter IX The New Atheist critique.
12. Chapter X Yoga as secular spiritual practice.
13. Chapter XI Psychedelics and the secular sacred.
14. Chapter XII Effective altruism — the moralism of secular spirituality.
15. Chapter XIII Critiques of secular spirituality.
16. Chapter XIV Pierre Hadot and "philosophy as a way of life."
17. Chapter XV The meaning question.
18. Chapter XVI The community problem.
19. Chapter XVII Death and dying.
20. Chapter XVIII Raising secular children.
21. Chapter XIX The political question.
22. Chapter XX Watch & read.
23. Chapter XXI The shelf.
24. Chapter XXII An honest assessment.
25. Chapter XXIII Why this matters.
26. Chapter XXIV The next decade.
27. Chapter XXV How to begin.
28. Chapter XXVI The category and what comes after.
29. Chapter XXVII For the seriously interested.
30. The end of the deck.

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