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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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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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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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Is God Good? Aquinas, Śamkara, Abhinavagupta, Balinese Śaivism, and the Problematics of the Argument from Evil [PDF]
, 2016 The problem of evil--as opposed to the argument from evil--is an ancient one, but it was not initially formulated as an argument in support of atheism. God\u27s existence was taken for granted, and on that basis thinkers like Augustine engaged an serious
Nelson, Lance E.
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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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Tadeusz Kotarbiński on God and Religion [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of the paper is the presentation of the main reasons of Tadeusz Kotarbiński’s atheism and an interpretation of his position in terms of the conceptual apparatus used in contemporary philosophical debate on atheism.
Łukasiewicz, Dariusz
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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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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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