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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 ...
Kettell, Steven
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Positivism and Reasonableness: Authoritarian Leanings in New Atheism’s Thinking

Religions, 2022
Various contemporary phenomena of social regression and authoritarianism are related to religious actors, movements, and beliefs. This text, however, seeks to follow this up with the political–theoretical argumentation that New Atheism has to be ...
Michael Roseneck
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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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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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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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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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New atheism and secularism

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.
T. Sieczkowski
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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 ...
Sieczkowski, Tomasz
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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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New Atheism and its critics

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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