Religion and the new atheism
Subtitle: a critical appraisal
By: edited by Amarnath Amarasingam
Series: Studies in critical social sciences -- v. 25. -- Studies in critical research on religion -- v. 1; Studies in critical social sciences -- v. 25.; Studies in critical social sciences -- v. 1.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9789004185579
Description: While I most definitely did not agree with all of the contributions in the volume, and while I am generally more supportive of the new atheists than I am of their detractors, I found this volume over-all to be a compelling, engrossing, and provocative contribution."--Phil Zuckerman, Associate Professor of Sociology, Pitzer College, Author of Society Without God"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : what is the new atheism? / Amarnath Amarasingam; title: Judaism and atheism : the challenge of secular humanism / Robert L. Platzner; title: Beating 'God' to death : radical theology and the new atheism / Jeffrey W. Robbins and Christopher D. Rodkey; title: Religion as phantasmagoria : Islam in The end of faith / Rory Dickson; title: What has atheism ever done for science? / Steve Fuller; title: Cognitive science and the new atheism / William Sims Bainbridge; title: One-dimensional rage : the social epistemology of the new atheism and fundamentalism / William A. Stahl; title: The new atheism and sociology : why here? why now? what next? / Stephen Bullivant; title: The new atheism and the secularization thesis / Michael Ian Borer; title: The new atheism and the empowerment of American freethinkers / Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith; title: Ethics, out-group altruism, and the new atheism / Gregory R. Peterson; title: Disparate destinations, parallel paths : an analysis of contemporary atheist and Christian parenting literature / Jeff Nall; title: Is God a hypothesis? : the new atheism, contemporary philosophy of religion, and philosophical confusion / Ryan C. Falcioni.