Editing Religious humanism (section)

==Discussion of terminology==
People writing about religious humanism are careful to distinguish religious humanism from [[Jewish humanism]] (nonreligious Jews who are humanists), [[Christian humanism]] (religious Christians asserting the humanitarian aspects of their religion), and [[secular humanism]] (often simply "humanism", a non-religious approach to life), but confusion inevitably arises.<ref name="Murry_p1">{{cite book |last=Murry |first=William |title=Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the 21st Century |year=2007 |publisher=Skinner House Books |location=Boston |isbn=978-1-55896-518-8 | chapter=Why I Am a Religious Humanist | pages=1 }}</ref> Another such term is [[Secular Buddhism]], which refers to an atheistic practice of [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] rituals.

Some experts on humanism, including [[Andrew Copson]], argue that there have been deliberate attempts to "muddy the conceptual water... of a complicatedly imprecise philosophical term" by adding the slew of qualifying adjectives to humanism. He asserts that the term "Christian humanism" was first used in 1944, and argues that it has largely been used by Christians "as a way of co‐opting the (to them) amenable aspects of humanism for their religion.<ref>"What is Humanism?" in [[Andrew Copson|Copson, Andrew]] and [[AC Grayling|Grayling, Anthony]] (eds.), ''The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Humanism'' (2015).</ref>