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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, Yousef Daneshvar Nilo   +1 more
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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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A CRITIQUE OF THE NEW ATHEISM IN LIGHT OF JOHN PAUL II’S FIDES ET RATIO

, 2020
The present paper seeks to demonstrate John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et Ratio as a possible discourse in the polemics of the New Atheism. The New Atheism is a term given to the anti-religion movement of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens,
Edmon Marquez, Philippines Philippine Normal University-South Luzon   +1 more
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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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Refuting New Atheism: A Critical Response to Richard Dawkins and Its Negative Impacts on Korean Society with Proposed Solutions

Tasfiyah: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam
This article critically examines the ideology of New Atheism, with particular focus on the writings and influence of Richard Dawkins. New Atheism, which rose to prominence in the West after the events of September 11, 2001, challenges religious belief ...
A. Turk, A. Zarkasyi, M. K. Muslih
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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 Gilsoniana
In 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: its nature, foundations, and background [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2016
This article deals with the New Atheism as one of the most important anti-religious currents in the present day. It came to the surface of public opinion during the first decade of this century.
Ali Shahbazi, Rasoul Rasoulipour, Ali Allahbedashti   +2 more
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Whatever happened to new atheism? The rise and fall of the U.S. atheist movement

Politics and Religion
The first decade of the twenty-first century saw the rise of a phenomenon known as new atheism. In recent years the visibility of new atheism has waned, but scholarly research into the causes of this decline remain limited. This paper examines the rise
Steven Kettell
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Moralities: A Contemporary Discourse between New Atheism and Islam

Islamiyyat, 2020
Atheists deny the existence of God and strongly oppose all religious faiths especially Islam after 9/11. They use scientific, philosophical, historical and moral arguments mainly to prove the non-existence of God.
A. Rehman
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