TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amarnath Amarasingam.
TI  - Religion and the new atheism: a critical appraisal 
T2  - Studies in critical social sciences,
SN  - 9789004190535
AV  - BL2747.3 .R47 2010eb
U1  - 211/.8 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Atheism
KW  - Religion
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Athéisme
KW  - Ouvrages de controverse
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - atheism
KW  - aat
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index; Introduction; what is the new atheism?; Amarnath Amarasingam --; Judaism and atheism : the challenge of secular humanism; Robert L. Platzner --; Beating 'God' to death : radical theology and the new atheism; Jeffrey W. Robbins and Christopher D. Rodkey --; Religion as phantasmagoria : Islam in The end of faith; Rory Dickson --; What has atheism ever done for science?; Steve Fuller --; Cognitive science and the new atheism; William Sims Bainbridge --; One-dimensional rage : the social epistemology of the new atheism and fundamentalism; William A. Stahl --; The new atheism and sociology : why here? why now? what next?; Stephen Bullivant --; The new atheism and the secularization thesis; Michael Ian Borer --; The new atheism and the empowerment of American freethinkers; Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith --; Ethics, out-group altruism, and the new atheism; Gregory R. Peterson --; Disparate destinations, parallel paths : an analysis of contemporary atheist and Christian parenting literature; Jeff Nall --; Is God a hypothesis? : the new atheism, contemporary philosophy of religion, and philosophical confusion; Ryan C. Falcioni
N2  - 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 only grown in popularity over the years. This book brings together scholars from religious studies, science, sociology of religion, sociology of science, philosophy, and theology to engage the new atheism and place it in the context of broader scholarly discourses. This volume will serve to contextualize and critically examine the claims, arguments and
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