14 Facts About Ethical movement

Ethical movement, referred to as the Ethical Culture movement, Ethical Humanism or simply Ethical Culture, is an ethical, educational, and religious movement that is usually traced back to Felix Adler .

Ethical movement is an outgrowth of secular moral traditions in the 19th century, principally in Europe and the United States.

Ethical movement Culture is premised on the idea that honoring and living in accordance with ethical principles is central to what it takes to live meaningful and fulfilling lives, and to creating a world that is good for all.

Practitioners of Ethical movement Culture focus on supporting one another in becoming better people, and on doing good in the world.

Ethical movement was an outgrowth of the general loss of faith among the intellectuals of the Victorian era.

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In effect, the Ethical movement responded to the religious crisis of the time by replacing theology with unadulterated morality.

Unlike the philanthropic efforts of the established religious institutions of the time, the Ethical movement societies did not attempt to proselytize those they helped.

Coit worked quickly to shape the West London society not only around Ethical Culture but the trappings of religious practice, renaming the society in 1914 to the Ethical Church; he did this because he subscribed to a personal theory of using "theological terms in a humanistic sense" in order to make the Ethical movement appealing to irreligious people with otherwise strong cultural attachments to religion, such as cultural Christians.

Harold Blackham, who had taken over leadership of the London Ethical Church, consciously sought to remove the church-like trappings of the Ethical movement, and advocated a simple creed of humanism that was not akin to a religion.

Ethical movement principles are viewed as being related to deep truths about the way the world works, and hence not arbitrary.

Key to the founding of Ethical movement Culture was the observation that too often disputes over religious or philosophical doctrines have distracted people from actually living ethically and doing good.

Functionally, the Ethical movement Societies were organized in a similar manner to churches or synagogues and are headed by "leaders" as clergy.

Largest concentration of Ethical movement Societies is in the New York metropolitan area, including Societies in New York, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, Westchester and Nassau County; and New Jersey, such as Bergen and Essex Counties, New Jersey.

American Ethical movement Union holds an annual AEU Assembly bringing together Ethical movement societies from across the US.