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Sunday, December 8, 2019, 1:30pm - 3:30pm

Location:

Philips Brooks House, Harvard Square, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

URL:

https://www.meetup.com/GreaterBostonHumanists/events/266493297/

Event Description:

Greater Boston Humanists will hold their last talk of 2019 before the
Jan. 11 Solstice Luncheon with a special guest and topic. Rick Heller,
operations manager at the Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard and author of
the nonfiction book Secular Meditation, will lead a discussion of
novels related to atheism and will read from his work-in-progress, a
novel about a secular mindfulness teacher who is charged with murder.
Is there such a thing as an "atheist novel?" Are atheists less
inclined to read novels because they prefer facts to fiction? Many or
most novels ignore religion but that wouldn't make them atheist
fiction. Which novels address issues and themes of particular interest
to atheists? Works by Albert Camus and Salman Rushdie surely qualify.
What books would you nominate? Join us for a discussion and sharing of
the arts as part of the humanist life.

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Sunday, December 8, 2019 - 13:30 to 15:30

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