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What's really new about new atheism? [PDF]
Palgrave Communications, 2016 The rise of new atheism has attracted significant attention but its novelty is often assumed rather than explained. By exploring the origins of new atheism and drawing comparisons to earlier atheist forms, this paper argues that new atheism contains aspects that are genuinely new.
Kettell, Steven
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Theological Critique of the "New Atheism" [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016 The paper is devoted to a critical analysis of one of the newest trends of modern Anglo-American freethinking. It is called “new atheism”. The most known spokesmen of this trend are R. Dawkins, D. Dennett, S. Harris and Ch. Hitchens.
Sleptsova Valeriia
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New atheism and its enemy [PDF]
Hybris, 2012 The popularity of New Atheism in the market of ideas in the last decade is unprecedented. This informal movement introduced radical atheism into the mainstream of public considerations and created a massive resentment amongst philosophers and theologians. Many critiques come predictably from conservative groups, which makes them conventional.
Sieczkowski, Tomasz
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Hybris, 2018 The paper attempts to analyze the theoretical conditions of the possible conflict between the New Atheism and modern secular liberal democracies. After short presentation of a few main components of neoatheistic thinking I concentrate on the notion of secularism as proposed by Charles Taylor.
Tomasz Sieczkowski
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Sovereign of Herself: Women’s Narratives of ‘Lived Atheism’ [PDF]
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2018 In most western societies the number of female non-believers is growing and atheism has become one manifestation of nonreligion among many (Pew Forum, 2015). However, little is known about female atheists.
Marta Trzebiatowska
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Radical atheism and religious power: new atheist politics
Approaching Religion, 2012 The increased visibility of assertive forms of atheism has provoked much public debate. This article argues that new atheism primarily seeks to contest what it considers to be the unjustifiably powerful role of religion through a multifaceted challenge ...
Stuart McAnulla
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Between postmodernism, positivism and (new) atheism [PDF]
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2015 The Renaissance introduced the autonomy of being human which in turn resulted in promoting the position of human understanding as the formal law-giver of nature. Twentieth century philosophy of science acknowledged the necessity of a theoretical frame of
Danie Strauss
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Faithless: The politics of new atheism
Secularism and Nonreligion, 2013 The emergence of ‘new atheism’ during the course of the last decade helped fuel an upsurge of interest in issues around religion. But scholarly analysis of new atheism, particularly its political dimensions, remains embryonic.
Steven Kettell
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A new typology of modern atheisms: pilgrim atheism versus tourist atheism
Culture and Religion, 2016 AbstractThis paper distinguishes between two types of modern atheisms: pilgrim atheism versus tourist atheism. Pilgrim atheism is based on and firmly supports the religion/science dichotomy. New Atheism is today’s well-known representative of pilgrim atheism which is characterised by its hostility to all religions.
Morteza Hashemi
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The new visibility of atheism in Europe
Approaching Religion, 2012 The current issue of Approaching Religion, which opens the second volume of this e-journal, consists of papers, reviews and reflections originating from a roundtable seminar held at the Donner Institute in January 2012.
Ruth Illman, Teemu Taira
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