George Holyoake
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George Jacob Holyoake was an English secularist, co-operator and newspaper editor. He coined the terms secularism in 1851 and "jingoism" in 1878. He edited a secularist paper, The Reasoner, from 1846
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Holyoake House in Manchester, home to Co-operatives UK and the Co-operative College.
The grave of George Holyoake, Highgate Cemetery, London
Holyoake's name on the lower section of the Reformers memorial, Kensal Green Cemetery
Religion of Humanity
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Religion of Humanity is a secular religion proposed by Auguste Comte, the founder of positivist philosophy. Adherents of this religion have built chapels of Humanity in Brazil and France.
George Holyoake
…philosopher of science, Auguste Comte, notable in sociology and famous for the doctrine of positivism. Comte had himself attempted to establish a secular "religion of humanity" to fulfil the cohesive function of traditional religion. Holyoake was an acquaintance of Harriet Martineau, who translated various works by Comte and…
Chapelle of humanity in Paris, property of the Positivist Church of Brazil.
Positivist temple in Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Erlon Jacques de Oliveira, Temple guardian in Porto Alegre
Portrait of de Clotilde de Vaux in the Chapel of Humanity, Paris