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Pitzer Alumni & Family Book Club Presents Living the Secular Life With Professor Phil Zuckerman

Phil Zuckerman, Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies

The Pitzer College Alumni & Family Book Club hosted a virtual conversation in June between alumna Janet Alexander ’11 and Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies Phil Zuckerman about his book Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions. Zuckerman studied the lives of the nonreligious for years before founding Pitzer’s Secular Studies program—the [Read More...]

July 28, 2022

In the News

Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies Phil Zuckerman pens article for The Conversation about John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ at 50

"‘Imagine’ at 50: Why John Lennon’s ode to humanism still resonates"
The Conversation, 09.13.21

In the News

Professor of Sociology and Secular Studies Phil Zuckerman pens Los Angeles Times Op-Ed about Record Pace of Secularization of US Society

"Op-Ed: Why America's record godlessness is good news for the nation"
Los Angeles Times, 04.02.21

In the News

Professor Phil Zuckerman pens “Secular ‘values voters’ are becoming an electoral force — just look closely at 2020’s results” for Salon

"Secular "values voters" are becoming an electoral force — just look closely at 2020's results"
Salon.com, 01.04.21

In the News

Phil Zuckerman, professor of sociology and secular studies, pens “Why is it so hard for atheists to get voted in to Congress?” for The Conversation.

"Why is it so hard for atheists to get voted in to Congress?"
The Conversation, 10.05.20

In the News

Professor of Sociology Phil Zuckerman pens op-ed about guns and God in the Los Angeles Times

"Op-Ed: Mike Huckabee ties mass shootings to an absence of faith in God. Social science proves him wrong"
, 08.11.19

Press Releases

Pitzer Professor Phil Zuckerman Authors Seventh Book on Sociology and Secularity

Claremont, Calif. (July 25, 2019)—Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman’s seventh book, What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life (Counterpoint Press) will be released on September 20, 2019. Zuckerman teaches sociology and founded the secular studies program at Pitzer College In What It Means to Be Moral: [Read More...]

July 25, 2019

Video

Faculty Profile: Phil Zuckerman

Meet Pitzer Professor Phil Zuckerman, a world-renowned secular studies scholar. Zuckerman started the country's first secular studies major at Pitzer College and is the author of Living the Secular Life.

November 7, 2017

In the News

The Los Angeles Times publishes Professor Phil Zuckerman’s op-ed “The Trump administration’s alternative Christianity.”

Los Angeles Times

Press Releases

Pitzer Professor Phil Zuckerman Publishes Definitive Work on Secularism

Book Cover, Oxford Handbook of Secularism

Claremont, Calif. (January 17, 2017)—Pitzer College Professor Phil Zuckerman’s new book, The Oxford Handbook of Secularism, is being touted as the most comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume ever written about secularism. The 792-page Oxford University Press anthology, which Zuckerman co-edited with John R. Shook, gives a 360-degree global view of secularism. “We have philosophers, anthropologists, political [Read More...]

January 17, 2017