The Politics Of New Atheism
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The Politics Of New Atheism
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Author : Stuart McAnulla
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-04
The Politics Of New Atheism written by Stuart McAnulla and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-04 with Political Science categories.
New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political dimensions. This book analyses the political aspects of new atheism and offers an analysis that is informed by insights from political science and political theory. The authors locate new atheism within a diverse history of politically-oriented atheisms. It is argued the new atheist movement itself contains a considerable variety of political viewpoints, despite coalescing around forms of secularist campaigning and identity politics. New atheist views on monotheism, public life, morality and religious violence are examined to highlight both limitations and strengths in such perspectives. Conservative, feminist and Marxist responses to new atheism are also evaluated within this critical analysis. The book rejects claims that new atheism is itself a form of fundamentalism and argues that the issues it grapples with often reflect wider dilemmas in liberal-left thought which have ongoing relevance in the era of Trump and Brexit. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars in the fields of new atheism, political atheism, secularism, non-religion, and secular-religious tensions.
The Evolution Of Atheism
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Author : Stephen LeDrew
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-01
The Evolution Of Atheism written by Stephen LeDrew and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with Religion categories.
The concept of evolution is widely considered to be a foundational building block in atheist thought. Leaders of the New Atheist movement have taken Darwin's work and used it to diminish the authority of religious institutions and belief systems. But they have also embraced it as a metaphor for the gradual replacement of religious faith with secular reason. They have posed as harbingers of human progress, claiming the moral high ground, and rejecting with intolerance any message that challenges the hegemony of science and reason. Religion, according to the New Atheists, should be relegated to the Dark Ages of superstition and senseless violence. Yet Darwin did not see evolution as a linear progression to an improved state of being. The more antagonistic members of the New Atheist movement who embrace this idea are not only employing bad history, but also the kind of rigid, black-and-white thinking they excoriate in their religious opponents. Indeed, Stephen LeDrew argues, militant atheists have more in common with religious fundamentalists than they would care to admit, advancing what LeDrew calls secular fundamentalism. In reaction to fundamentalist Christianity and Islamism, this strain of atheism has become an offshoot of the religion it tries so hard to malign. The Evolution of Atheism outlines the essential political tension at the heart of the atheist movement. The New Atheism, LeDrew shows, is part of a tradition of atheist thought and activism that promotes individualism and scientific authority, which puts it at odds with atheist groups that are motivated by humanistic ethics and social justice. LeDrew draws on public relations campaigns, publications, podcasts, and in-depth interviews to explore the belief systems, internal logics, and self-contradictions of the people who consider themselves to be atheists. He argues that evolving understandings of what atheism means, and how it should be put into action, are threatening to irrevocably fragment the movement.
The New Atheism Hoax
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Author : T J Coles
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2024-02-29
The New Atheism Hoax written by T J Coles and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-29 with Philosophy categories.
At last! An exposé of the HOAX that is the so-called New Atheism. After 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens wrote books in support of godlessness. But they didn't just promote secularism: they tried to blame war not on America's quest for "full spectrum dominance," but on Muslims, Christians, and peoples of other faiths. T.J. Coles simply and calmly goes through each of the political claims of the New Atheists and shows how they perpetrated a momumental hoax. In case after case, their own sources say that religion is not the cause of violence, let the Four Horsemen took their sources out of context and created a philosophical genre based on fraud.
God And The New Atheism
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Author : John F. Haught
language : en
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Release Date : 2008-02-15
God And The New Atheism written by John F. Haught and has been published by Westminster John Knox Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-15 with Religion categories.
In God and the New Atheism, a world expert on science and theology gives clear, concise, and compelling answers to the charges against religion laid out in recent best-selling books by Richard Dawkins (The God Delusion), Sam Harris (The End of Faith), and Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great). For some, these "new atheists" appear to say extremely well what they believe to be wrong with religion. But, as John Haught shows, the treatment of religion in these books is riddled with logical inconsistencies, shallow misconceptions, and crude generalizations. Can God really be dismissed as a mere delusion? Is faith really the enemy of reason? And does religion really poison everything? God and the New Atheism offers a much-needed antidote to the extremist claims of scientific fundamentalism. This provocative and accessible little book will enable readers to see through the rhetorical fog of this recent phenomenon and come to a clearer understanding of the issues at stake in this crucial debate.
New Atheism
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Author : Alan G. Nixon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2019-11-14
New Atheism written by Alan G. Nixon and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-14 with Religion categories.
This is the first full-length exploration of New Atheism within its wider social, cultural, intellectual, political contexts. Alan G. Nixon examines other nonreligious currents including the 'rise of the Nones' and the vibrancy of online atheist communities already well under way before the bestsellers Dawkins' The God Delusion (2006) and Hitchens' God is Not Great (2007) came along, alongside the social and political contexts such as 9/11 and concerns over science and religion teaching in schools. The book provides and draws on extensive global ethnographic data from digital fieldwork sites, as well as empirical work from Australia, which has been neglected in research to date, and provides linguistic and cultural data of relevance to scholars particularly in the US, UK and Canada where the movement largely began. New Atheism contributes to theoretical debates regarding (post)secularism, atheism and the field of nonreligion and secularity more broadly. It is essential reading for anyone wanting to know where New Atheism came from, why, and its ongoing impacts on nonreligious thought and culture.
New Atheism Critical Perspectives And Contemporary Debates
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Author : Christopher R. Cotter
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-07
New Atheism Critical Perspectives And Contemporary Debates written by Christopher R. Cotter and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-07 with Philosophy categories.
Whether understood in a narrow sense as the popular works of a small number of (white male) authors, or as a larger more diffuse movement, twenty-first century scholars, journalists, and activists from all ‘sides’ in the atheism versus theism debate, have noted the emergence of a particular form of atheism frequently dubbed ‘New Atheism’. The present collection has been brought together to provide a scholarly yet accessible consideration of the place and impact of ‘New Atheism’ in the contemporary world. Combining traditional and innovative approaches, chapters draw on the insights of philosophers, religious studies scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, and literary critics to provide never-before-seen insights into the relationship between ‘New Atheism’, science, gender, sexuality, space, philosophy, fiction and much more. With contributions from Australia, Germany and the United Kingdom, the volume also presents diversity in regard to religious/irreligious commitment, with contributions from atheists, theists and more agnostic orientations. New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates features an up-to-date overview of current research on ‘New Atheism’, a Foreword from Stephen Bullivant (co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Atheism), and eleven new chapters with extensive bibliographies that will be important to both a general audience and to those conducting research in this area. It provides a much-needed fresh look at a contentious phenomenon, and will hopefully encourage the cooperation and dialogue which has predominantly been lacking in relevant contemporary debates.
The New Atheists
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Author : Tina Beattie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The New Atheists written by Tina Beattie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Religion categories.
'The New Atheists' argues that the threat of religious fanaticism is mirrored by a no less virulent and ignorant secular fanaticism which has taken hold of the intellectual classes.
The Evolution Of Atheism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
The Evolution Of Atheism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Atheism categories.
A New Theist Response To The New Atheists
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Author : Kevin Vallier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-11
A New Theist Response To The New Atheists written by Kevin Vallier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-11 with Religion categories.
In response to the intellectual movement of New Atheism, this volume articulates a "New Theist" response that has at its core a desire to engage in productive and depolarizing dialogue. To ensure this book is of interest to atheists and theists alike, a team of experts in the field of philosophy of religion offer an assessment of the strongest New Atheist arguments. The chapters address the most pertinent questions about God, including politics and morality, and each essay shows how a reflective theist might deal with points raised by the New Atheists. This volume is a serious academic engagement with the questions asked by New Atheism. As such, it will be of significant interest to scholars working in the philosophy of religion and theology, as well as those engaged in religious studies generally.
Total Atheism
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Author : Stefan Binder
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-04-09
Total Atheism written by Stefan Binder and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-09 with Religion categories.
Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India’s rapidly transforming multi-religious society. It explores the social, cultural, and aesthetic challenges faced by a movement of secular activists in their endeavors to establish atheism as a practical and comprehensive way of life. On the basis of original ethnographic material and engaged conceptual analysis, Total Atheism develops an alternative to Eurocentric accounts of secularity and critically revisits central themes of South Asian scholarship from the hitherto marginalized vantage point of radically secular and explicitly irreligious atheists in India.