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Atheisms Unbound: The Role of the New Media in the Formation of a Secularist Identity

open access: goldSecularism and Nonreligion, 2012
In this article we examine the Internet’s role in facilitating a more visible and active secular identity. Seeking to situate this more visible and active secularist presence—which we consider a form of activism in terms of promoting the importance of ...
Christopher Smith, Richard Cimino
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New atheism and its enemy [PDF]

open access: yesHybris, 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 theologians. Many critiques come predictably from conservative groups, which makes them conventional.
Sieczkowski, Tomasz
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The new visibility of atheism in Europe

open access: yesApproaching 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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Neuer Atheismus: New Atheism in Germany

open access: diamondApproaching 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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The Failure of New Atheism Morality [PDF]

open access: greenStudia 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.
Robert A. Delfino
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New Atheism and ‘Evil’ of Religions: The Call of Pastoral Theology for Building New Apologetics

open access: diamondGodišnjak, 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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Humanism and new atheism: Experiences and proposals of an educational minority

open access: green, 2020
The research intends to trace a profile of two twentieth-century movements — Humanism and New Atheism — which, from an educational point of view, constitute an interesting and original minority.
Gianfranco Bandini
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Atheist spirituality: a follow on from New Atheism?

open access: diamondScripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 2012
Books about well-being, self-improvement, life management and spirituality have been popular for many years. It is not news to anybody that such topics sell.
Teemu Taira
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Remarks on the New Atheism

open access: green, 2011
This newspaper article offers some critical remarks on the new atheism.
Daniel Came
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New Atheism: A Critique by way of Marxian Materialism and Scientific Skepticism [PDF]

open access: bronzeNorthern Plains Ethics Journal, 2018
In the mid-2000s, a new form of atheistic polemic hit the world stage. It came by way of the works of the scientists Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, social and political critic Christopher Hitchens, and many others.
Ron Gaul
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