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Felix Adler

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A movement that presents itself as non-religious was started by a man whose ideas were shaped inside a religious debate.
Who they are

Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture movement[1].

What they do

The record places him at the 1893 Parliament on the World's Religions, on a panel asking whether Christianity was losing ground.

How it works

The Parliament was chaired by Paul Carus, who was a freemason. Adler contributed to the same panel as Carus. The record notes the freemason link as a personal association only, and says it does not show any institutional, funding, or membership tie between them. The record also says Adler's founding role does not give him any institutional command over Carus or The Open Court. A cited document says Adler laid the foundations for what became organised humanism.

Why it matters

It shows a founder of organised humanism working inside a Christian question, alongside a freemason, while the record itself warns against reading those links as control.

The engine's record — word for word
The corpus records: "Incidentally, Paul Carus — who just by coincidence was a freemason — chaired the 1893 Parliament on the Worlds Religions 8 , and contributed to a panel titled ‘ Is Christianity losing ground ’ — an event to which Felix Adler, founder of the Ethical Culture movement, contributed as well." Cross-sourced to heritage.humanists.uk — documents cited by the corpus and retrieved independently of it.
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