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Humanism may refer to ethical philosophies such as

• Religious humanism, an integration of humanist ethical philosophy with religious rituals and beliefs
  • Christian humanism, a philosophy that combines Christian ethics and humanist principles
  • Humanistic Judaism, a movement in Judaism that offers a nontheistic alternative in contemporary Jewish life
• Secular humanism, embraces humanism while rejecting religious aspects

Humanism may also refer to:

• Renaissance humanism, an intellectual movement based on reviving Greek and Roman knowledge
• Classical humanism, the cultivation of Greco-Roman legacies (not limited to Renaissance times)
• Civic Humanism, a form of republicanism inspired by the writings of classical antiquity
• Humanism (philosophy of education), a theory based on generation of knowledge, meaning and expertise
• Humanities, a group of academic disciplines and the educational philosophy associated with them
• Pragmatism, in the terminology of F.S.C. Schiller
• Marxist Humanism, a more liberal form of Marxism
• Neohumanism, a holistic philosophical theory elaborated by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
• New Humanism (disambiguation), a literary criticism term associated with Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More

See also

• Humanism
• Humanist (disambiguation)