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Being Godless : Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion / ed. by Roy Llera Blanes, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Social Analysis ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (154 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785336287
  • 9781785335747
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.6 23
LOC classification:
  • BL2747
  • BL2747 .B45 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism -- Chapter 1 Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain -- Chapter 2 Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism -- Chapter 3 Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola -- Chapter 4 Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt -- Chapter 5 Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology -- Chapter 6 Confessional Anthropology -- Afterword: On Atheism and Non-Religion -- Index
Summary: Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism -- Chapter 1 Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain -- Chapter 2 Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism -- Chapter 3 Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola -- Chapter 4 Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt -- Chapter 5 Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology -- Chapter 6 Confessional Anthropology -- Afterword: On Atheism and Non-Religion -- Index

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Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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