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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 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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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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Religions, 2022 Western New Atheism is witnessing a resurgence in the Arab world which has provoked a strong Islamic counter-atheism reaction. The present essay seeks to: 1—briefly describe the cultural resurgence of both opposing camps, 2—illuminate a philosophical Qur’
A. Z. Obiedat
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Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2023 The theory of secularization has long been at the forefront of the philosophical discourse of the 20th century. The secular perception of social processes could not help but influence their dynamics, the decisions made by people at different levels of ...
D. S. Litova
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Atheism in US and UK Newspapers: Negativity about Non-Belief and Non-Believers
Religions, 2021 Atheists are among the most disliked “religious” groups in the United States, but the origins of this aversion remain poorly understood. Because the media are an important source of public attitudes, we analyze coverage of atheism and atheists in ...
A. Maurits van der Veen, Erik Bleich
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More visible but limited in its popularity: atheism (and atheists) in Finland
Approaching Religion, 2012 This paper argues that atheism has become more visible in Finland, but it is a relatively unpopular identity position. The relatively low popularity of atheism is partly explained by the connection between Lutheranism and Finnishness. In public discourse
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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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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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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