The Oxford Handbook of Atheism
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 21 November 2013
- ISBN 9780199644650
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages784 pages
- Size 253x178x52 mm
- Weight 1502 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
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 implications of unbelief from an array of disciplinary perspectives and in a range of global contexts.
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Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of the past decade or more. As such, it has spurred fertile (and often heated) discussions both within, and between, a diverse range of disciplines. Yet atheism, and the New Atheism, are by no means co-extensive. Interesting though it indeed is, the New Atheism is a single, historically and culturally specific manifestation of positive atheism (the belief that there is/are no God/s), which is itself but one form of a far deeper, broader, and more significant global phenomenon.
The Oxford Handbook of Atheism 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 all the richness and diversity of its historical and contemporary expressions. Bringing together an international team of established and emerging scholars, it probes the varied manifestations and implications of unbelief from an array of disciplinary perspectives (philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, demography, psychology, natural sciences, gender and sexuality studies, literary criticism, film studies, musicology) and in a range of global contexts (Western Europe, North America, post-communist Europe, the Islamic world, Japan, India). Both surveying and synthesizing previous work, and presenting the major fruits of innovative recent research, the handbook is set to be a landmark text for the study of atheism.
...a touchstone reference work in the study of atheism and related phenomena, and the editors and contributors are to be commended for producing an accessible refer-ence text containing world-leading, original scholarship that will stand the test of time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Study of Atheism
1: Definitions and Debates
Defining Atheism
The Case against Atheism
Critiques of Theistic Arguments
Arguments for Atheism
Problems of Evil
Atheism and Morality
Atheism and the Meaningfulness of Life
Aquinas and Atheism
2: History of (Western) Atheism
The Pre-Socratics to the Hellenistic Age
The First Millennium
The Medieval Period
Renaissance and Reformation
The Age of Enlightenment
The (Long) Nineteenth Century
The Twentieth Century
New Atheism
3: Worldviews and Systems
Humanism
Existentialism
Marxism
Analytic Philosophy
Jewish Atheism
Buddhism
Jainism
Hinduism
4: Atheism and the Natural Sciences
Naturalism and the Scientific Method
Atheism and the Rise of Science
Atheism and Darwinism
Atheism and the Physical Sciences
5: Atheism and the Social Sciences
Atheism and the Secularization Thesis
Psychology of Atheism
Atheism and Cognitive Science
Atheism and Societal Health
Atheism, Gender, and Sexuality
Atheism, Health and Well-being
Conversion and Deconversion
6: Global Expressions
A World of Atheism: Global Demographics
Western Europe
North America
Central and Eastern Europe
Islamic World
India
Japan
7: Atheism and the Arts
Literature
Visual Arts
Music
Film
