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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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A Study of the Relationship between Religion and Morality from Sam Harris's Perspective [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2023 A leading figure of "new atheism", Sam Harris, maintains that religion and morality are in conflict. He, despite what religious believers generally think, does not take religion to be a basis for morality, instead, he believes that religion devastates ...
Morteza Faghihi Fazel +1 more
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020 Based on two presentations during a February 2020 South African academic visit at the University of Pretoria and the University of Johannesburg, in this contribution, the authors of this article engage with one of the bestselling recent volumes in ...
David Biernot, Christoffel Lombaard
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CMES (Center of Middle Eastern Studies), 2022 This study aims to see the correlation between state policies and the increasing number of atheism in Turkey and Saudi Arabia. These two countries were chosen because they represent two countries with a majority Muslim population that apply Islamic law ...
Yuangga Kurnia Yahya
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Between postmodernism, positivism and (new) atheism
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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Vyprávění mezi empatií a vraždou Ian McEwan a jeho román Pokání [PDF]
Svět Literatury, 2021 While the human capacity of storytelling constitutes an important meta-textual motif in several of McEwan’s novels, Atonement (2001) is his prominent story about storytelling and its moral value.
Jakub Čapek
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Neuer Atheismus: New Atheism in Germany
Approaching Religion, 2012 Matthias Knutzen (born 1646 – died after 1674) was the first author we know of who self-identified as an atheist (Schröder 2010: 8). Before this, the term had solely been used pejoratively to label others. While Knutzen is almost completely forgotten now,
Thomas Zenk
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New Atheism and ‘Evil’ of Religions: The Call of Pastoral Theology for Building New Apologetics
Godišnjak, 2015 In this paper, the author explores the New Atheism movement in the West and con-temporary Western apologetics. The goal of such research is to present the apologetics as a valid answer of the Church to modern science and atheistic conclusions based on it.
Vedran Golijanin
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From Atheism to Transhumanism. A Critical Look [PDF]
Studia GilsonianaIn this research paper I focus on the question of the relationship between atheism and transhumanism. I expose the well-known thesis whereby atheism is a property of Western culture.
Jarosław Jagiełło
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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.
Teemu Taira
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