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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.
Steven Kettell
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New Atheism and the Criticism of Islam

Temenos
One of the ideas in the debates concerning anti-Islamic activities is that atheists, especially prominent celebrity atheists – commonly known as ‘New Atheists’ – have provided support and justification for anti-Islamic attitudes and activities.
Teemu Taira
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Religion in the postmodern West and the challenges of the new atheism [PDF]

Kom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2021
Religious truths from universal norms become a matter of individual taste. The idea of religion as a useful lie emerges, placing a human religious life in the sphere of socially lucrative.
Dabetić Ilija
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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 critics [PDF]

Philosophy Compass, 2018
Abstract What is the significance of the New Atheist movement? This essay argues that it has hindered rather than advanced the philosophical debate, presenting a one‐sided caricature of religion rather than serious intellectual engagement with the topic.
Whitley Kaufman
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Contemporary Grammars of Meaning Creation: Scientific Creationism and New Atheism [PDF]

Religions, 2021
This article approaches the grammars of meaning creation by Scientific Creationism and New Atheism from an anthropological-communicological perspective.
Rubén Sánchez-Sabaté
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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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The social dimension of the new atheism

Philosophy Journal, 2023
The article examines the socio-political aspect of the new atheism. Within the framework of this phenomenon, initially associated with the four bestselling authors R. Dawkins, S. Harris, K. Hitchens, D.
Ekaterina Korostichenko, Yaroslav I. Klimov   +1 more
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Problem Argumen Improbabilitas dalam The God Delusion: Kritik terhadap New Atheism Dawkins

MELINTAS, 2023
This article aims to criticize the improbability argument put forth by Dawkins, which serves as the central thesis in the new atheism. Dawkins uses this thesis to justify religion as the root of evil and violence, while also forms the basis for the ...
Reza Alfarizi, Naupal Asnawi
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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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