Meaning and spirituality: Cortesi, Secular Wholeness: A Skeptic's Paths To A Richer Life
An engineer's take on how to achieve the benefits of religion without the dogma. It's free online in HTML and PDF. It has lots of references to source material (books and journal articles), pulls from all the major religions and philosophies, and attempts to describe exactly how what they do benefits people (community, feeling of purpose, etc.) and then outlines ways these can be achieved in a naturalistic world.
This sounds like Alain de Boton's Religion for Atheists without the bullshit Temple to Atheism and Agape Restaurants.
I'm about to launch a new website (as a personal project; it's got nothing to do with SI or CFAR) about naturalistic views of the world, and that website will contain links to engaging and accessible books and articles about naturalistic approaches to:
What links do other LWers recommend on these topics? To show you what kinds of articles I have in mind, here's what I have so far:
Seeking Truth:
The Self & Free Will:
Ethics and Society:
Happiness and Self-Help:
Meaning and Spirituality: