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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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The pure sky and the eternal return: Zarathustra’s affirmative atheism
, 2022 Zarathustra initially describes churches as the stale caves of world-denying priests. However, following his encounter with the eternal return of the same, Zarathustra overcomes this resentful atheism. The pure sky that Zarathustra desires above all else,
Baker, Gideon, Gideon Baker
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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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