Secularization, Social Order and World History provides a new perspective on the nature of secularization. This book demonstrates that the concepts of religion and the secular that are assumed in traditional accounts of secularization are not univer...Loe edasi...
Chaplaincy for a Plural World provides the theoretical foundation for an inclusive understanding of chaplaincy and lays out key chaplaincy methods for providing spiritual care in a modern context....Loe edasi...
This book unites the burgeoning scholarly literature on not-believing in various disciplines into a proposed new field of apisteology. It demonstrates that not-believinglike not-knowingis a worthy and distinct subject and not merely a vacuum where b...Loe edasi...
Religion and Atheism in Dialogue will interest anyone who is concerned about the clash between the religious and the secular and how to move beyond it, as well as students of ethics, philosophy of religion and religious studies....Loe edasi...
Questions about how to negotiate belief and non-belief in social and public spheres are attracting an increasing amount of attention from academics in a range of disciplines, and from concerned members of the public....Loe edasi...
Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to public discussions of secularism across the globe and this thoroughly updated edition continues to be an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a readable introduction to the often-co...Loe edasi...
This book offers a contemporary, cross-cultural look at non-belief and non-religion in Islam. Providing historical, conceptual, statistical, and ethnographic data on non-believers from Morocco to Egypt, Turkey, and Bangladesh, it explores the unique...Loe edasi...
Focusing on the debates between the New Atheists and theists, this book addresses the failings in understanding on both sides, arguing for a sociological perspective on religion, God and science as a practice, together with a critical realist approa...Loe edasi...
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was unthinkable in ancient Greece, taking an interdisciplinary approach to the subject. A fascinating read for students and scholars in C...Loe edasi...
This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism...Loe edasi...
Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiv...Loe edasi...
This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-atheism in the United States. It traces anti-atheism through five centuries of American history from colonization to the era of Donald Trump and contemporary conspiracy ideologies, such as the athei...Loe edasi...
This book expands the current axiology of theism literature by assessing the axiological status of alternative conceptions of God and the divine. It reflects a wider trend in analytic philosophy of religion to broaden its scope beyond the Judeo-Chri...Loe edasi...
This book examines the relations between the Albanian communist regime and the Albanian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (AAOC) from 1945, when the communists came to power, to 1967, when Albania became the only atheistic state in the world, and religi...Loe edasi...
Owning the Secular examines three cases studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canadaat the federal level and in the province of Québecand an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking h...Loe edasi...
This book offers a philosophical defence of nihilism. The authors believe that a revised understanding of nihilism can help remove a significant barrier of misunderstanding between religious believers and atheists....Loe edasi...
This book analyses the political aspects of new atheism and offers an analysis that is informed by insights from political science and political theory....Loe edasi...
This book presents an overview of the development of atheology from ancient thought to the present day. Shook shows how a familiarity with atheologys complex histories, forms, and strategies illuminates the contentious features of todays atheist and...Loe edasi...
This book features ten original essays written by prominent philosophers of religion that address this very important, yet surprisingly neglected, question: Does it matter whether God exists?...Loe edasi...
This book presents a pragmatic response to the New Atheism movement. The author argues that analytic and empirical philosophies of religion are methodologically unequipped to address New Atheist thinkers and settles upon a modified version of pragma...Loe edasi...
This book draws on an ethnographic study of the Sunday Assembly, a Godless congregation, to reflect on how the Church might better deal with suffering, lament and theodicy....Loe edasi...
This book explores religious change in Europe through a comparative approach that analyzes Atheist, Catholic, and Muslim blogs as spaces for articulating narratives about religion that symbolically challenge the power of religious institutions....Loe edasi...
This work provides a radical re-assessment of Protestantism by documenting and extrapolating Nietzsches view that Christianity dies from the head down. In this book, Nietzsche is put into conversation with the initiatives of several powerful thinkin...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of atheism, secularity and non-religion in Central and Eastern Europe in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and builds upon recent trends to focus on the rise of non-religion itself....Loe edasi...
This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France...Loe edasi...
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....Loe edasi...
This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion....Loe edasi...
Atheism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to the belief in the non-existence of deities.The book considers key arguments around atheism, making this an ideal starting point for anyone seeking a full introduction to the arguments bet...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Nov-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191756726)
This handbook is a pioneering edited volume, exploring atheism - understood in the broad sense of an absence of belief in the existence of a God or gods - in its historical and contemporary expressions. It probes the varied manifestations and impl...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Oct-2013, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118607725)
Tackling a host of myths and prejudices commonly leveled at atheism, this captivating volume bursts with sparkling, eloquent arguments on every page. The authors rebut claims that range from atheism being just another religion to the alleged atrocit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Apr-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199652563)
The first full-length study exploring the possibility of salvation for athiests in Catholic dogmatic theology since Vatican II. It discusses crucial foundational issues in the decades preceding the Council, looks at the conciliar teaching itself, ex...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2012, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119950868)
Religion clings to the supernatural for psychological comfort. In Adieu to God, Mick Powers provides a fair and balanced exploration of why this continues to be the case despite sciences repeated disproval of supernatural forces....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Mar-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199579945)
Thomas Holden presents a historical and critical interpretation of Humes rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes. Humes moral atheism is a central plank both of his naturalistic agenda in metaphysics and his secularizing prog...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Oct-2009, Kirjastus: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444307986)
A thought-provoking collection of original essays that address personal disbelief in a higher power Features a truly international cast of professionals in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics, ranging from public intellec...Loe edasi...
Kants take on the relationship between humanity and divinity is more complex and less assured than that to be found in most modern philosophers and apologists. The author traces this uneasy truth, or troubling notion, in the works of Kant, Schopenh...Loe edasi...
The rise of atheism and unbelief is a key factor in the development of the modern world, yet it has been relatively little explored by historians. This book presents a series of studies of irreligious ideas in various parts of Europe during the two...Loe edasi...
