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New Atheism and the Criticism of Islam
TemenosOne 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. Given that Sam Harris, one of the so-called New Atheists, stated that he started writing his first book, The ...
T. Taira
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Theological Critique of the “New Atheism” [PDF]
St.Tikhons' University Reviews, 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. Theology and Christian philosophy place high emphasis on the critique of the “new atheism”. One of the most talked-about
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.
Ilija Dabetić
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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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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. Under the topic ‘The New Visibility of Atheism in Europe’, some twenty scholars engaged in research on contemporary religiosity and ...
Taira, Teemu Patrik, Illman, Ruth
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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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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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The Failure of New Atheism Morality [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2015 New atheists, such as Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, generally speaking, are committed to two main beliefs. The first is scientism, which is the view that only science can give us complete and reliable knowledge of reality. The second is metaphysical naturalism, which is the view that no supernatural entities exist.
Robert A. Delfino
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A comparative study of the ethical causes of atheism tendency between Motahari and Pasquini perspectives [PDF]
اخلاق وحیانی, 2021 The study of atheism as a matter of knowledge in the 21st century has attracted the attention of many thinkers. Motahari and Pasquini are among those who have studied the causes and non-philosophical reasons of atheism and believe that atheism is against
reyhaneh alsadat azimi +2 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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