New Boston Books, Inc.

Publisher of adult and juvenile nonfiction            

     THE FUNDAMENTALS OF EXTREMISM

The Christian Right in America

Edited by Kimberly Blaker

 

Now translated in Arabic

by Shorouk International

Click for details

 

Home
Academic Use
Look Inside
Our Authors
Book Info
FREE E-Book
Translations/Foreign
Order Books
Bookseller Info
Media Info
Reviews
Tours/Events
FAQs
Excerpts
Speaker
Search

 

 

 

New Boston Books' Authors

Kimberly Blaker, editor and coauthor of The Fundamentals of Extremism: the Christian Right in America lives in Michigan.  She is a syndicated writer and columnist, social advocate, and staunch supporter of the separation of church and state. Her column The Wall™, on church and state, and other issues from a liberal perspective, has appeared in numerous news publications. Her commentaries have also appeared in the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News, San Francisco Examiner, and Los Angeles Daily Journal. She is also a syndicated writer of parenting and women's interest articles, which have appeared in more than 120 regional magazines. In addition, Kimberly has been published several times in the national Complete Woman Magazine, Playgirl, The Humanist, Toward Freedom, and Liberty Magazine. Excerpts of her work are also published by Bowdoin College,  Maine, for use in a Women's Studies course and CNED,  France. The Fundamentals of Extremism is based on her award-winning research paper, "Christian Fundamentalism: A Growing Danger."

 

Contributors

The following individuals made chapter contributions to The Fundamentals of Extremism:

Edward M. Buckner, Ph. D. of Amherst, New York, is Executive Director of the Council for Secular Humanism and editor of the Secular Humanist Bulletin. He received his Ph. D. in Educational Leadership in 1983 from Georgia State University and is former Director of planning, research, and development for Atlanta Technical Institute. Professional honors include election as Senator for Urban Studies Department in 1985 with the Georgia State University Senate. He formerly served as Vice President of Communications for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Georgia Chapter, and as chair of the 7th U.S. Congressional District Democratic Party. He is co-editor of Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church.

Edwin Frederick Kagin, J.D., of Union Kentucky, is an attorney and the son of a Presbyterian minister. He received his degree from the School of Law of the University of Louisville in 1971. He is an Eagle Scout, former college English Instructor, and a U.S. Air Force veteran. He was editor of the AAMD and NIMH project that created the Adaptive Behavior Scale, used for assessing mental retardation and is a founding board member of Recover Resources Center, an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous. He is the originator and Director of Camp Quest, the first residential summer camp in the U.S. for children of atheists and other freethinkers. He is a speaker, debater, and outspoken critic of violations of church and state.

Bobbie Kirkhart, of Los Angeles, California, is an independent study teacher of 38 subjects in the adult division of the Los Angeles Unified School District. She earned her BA in journalism from University of Oklahoma in 1965, and has taken advanced studies. Her first national article appeared in Christianity Today, while teaching Sunday school during her academic career. Following graduation she spent five years as a social worker in South Central Los Angeles working with abused children, ultimately leading to an alteration in her beliefs. She is co-president of Atheists United, the largest democratic atheist organization in the nation and of Atheist Alliance International. She has been published in Secular Nation, and has made several radio and television appearances including To The Point, syndicated on National Public Radio.

Herb Silverman, Ph. D. of Charleston, South Carolina, is Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston, which he joined in 1976, and is a National Board Member of the American Humanist Association. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Syracuse University in 1968. He is the author of over 100 research articles and recipient of the Outstanding Research Award at the College of Charleston, where he also served as head of the Faculty Senate. He attained the office of notary public in 1997 when the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional the state law that prohibited nonbelievers from holding public office. For his successful constitutional challenge, he was recognized by the Wall Street Journal and placed in their winners’ column.

John M. Suarez, M.D., of Newbury Park, California, is formerly Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles and is on the Board of Trustees for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He received his M.D. from Columbia University School of Medicine in 1960 and his M.S. from UCLA in 1964. During his career, he specialized in legal psychiatry. He has had forty-one articles published in professional journals, including the Journal of Forensic Sciences and Bull. American Academy of Psychiatry and The Law. He also serves as Chairman of the Committee on Education for Americans United and Vice Chairman of Development at the Center for Inquiry West. He has been a long time social activist.

 

 

 

1,600+ Brand New

Leather Bound Titles!

New Boston Fine

and Rare Books 

www.NewBostonUsedBooks.com

(734) 397-3510

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Boston Books, Inc. Homeis a non-fiction bookseller specializing in out-of-print and hard-to-find titles; textbooks; and uncommon topics for the curious, the intellectual, and the professional. (We also carry world music CDs as well as independent and educational films on VHS and DVD.)  Visit our used book division.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Telephone
734-397-3510
 
Postal address/Used-Book Division
P.O. Box 5585, Plymouth, Michigan 48170
 
Electronic mail
General Information: publisher@NewBostonBooks.com
 

 

Home ]

Send mail to webmaster@NewBostonBooks.com with questions or comments about this web site.
Copyright © 2002 New Boston Books, Inc.
Last modified: 04/17/07