Religion and the New Atheism

by Amarasingam, Amarnath

• ISBN13: 9789004185579
• ISBN10: 9004185577
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

The term "new atheism" has been given to the recent barrage of bestselling books written by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, and others. These books and their authors have had a significant media presence and have onl

Author Biography

Amarnath Amarasingam is a doctoral candidate in the Laurier-Waterloo PhD in Religious Studies in Ontario, Canada. He has published articles in The Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, as well as Mental Health, Religion and Culture.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: What is the New Atheism?	p. 1
Religion and the New Atheism
Judaism and Atheism: The Challenge of Secular Humanism	p. 11
Beating 'God' to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism	p. 25
Religion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in The End of Faith	p. 37
Science and the New Atheism
What Has Atheism Ever Done for Science?	p. 57
Cognitive Science and the New Atheism	p. 79
Sociology and the New Atheism
One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism	p. 97
The New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?	p. 109
The New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis	p. 125
The New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers	p. 139
Philosophy, Ethics and the New Atheism
Ethics, Out-Group Altruism, and the New Atheism	p. 159
Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature	p. 179
Is God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion	p. 203
Afterword	p. 225
About the Authors	p. 233
References	p. 237
Index	p. 251
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