Editing Secular humanism (section)

===Secular humanism===
In the 1930s, "humanism" was generally used in a religious sense by the Ethical movement in the United States, and not much favoured among the non-religious in Britain. Yet "it was from the Ethical movement that the non-religious philosophical sense of ''Humanism'' gradually emerged in Britain, and it was from the convergence of the Ethical and Rationalist movements that this sense of ''Humanism'' eventually prevailed throughout the [[Freethought]] movement".<ref>Walter, Nicolas (1997). ''Humanism: what's in the word?'' London: RPA/BHA/Secular Society Ltd, p. 43.</ref>

As an organised movement in its own right, humanism emerged from vibrant non-religious movements of the 18th and 19th centuries such as the Owenites, Ethical Culture, the freethinkers, secularists, and positivists, as well as a few non-religious radical Unitarian congregations. The first [[Humanist Manifesto]] announced the humanist movement by that name to the public in 1933, following work at the University of Chicago across the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.americanhumanist.org/Who_We_Are/About_Humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_I |title=Text of Humanist Manifesto I |publisher=Americanhumanist.org |access-date=13 November 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107221355/http://www.americanhumanist.org/who_we_are/about_humanism/Humanist_Manifesto_I |archive-date=7 November 2011}}</ref> The American Humanist Association was incorporated as an [[Illinois]] non-profit organization in 1943. The International Humanist and Ethical Union was founded in 1952, when a gathering of world Humanists met under the leadership of [[Sir Julian Huxley]]. The [[British Humanist Association]] took that name in 1967, but had developed from the Union of Ethical Societies which had been founded by [[Stanton Coit]] in 1896.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/history |title=British Humanist Association: History |publisher=Humanism.org.uk |access-date=13 November 2011 |archive-date=24 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121124042907/http://www.humanism.org.uk/about/history |url-status=dead }}</ref>