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The Oxford Handbook of Atheism: (Oxford Handbooks)

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Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of the past decade or more. As such, it has spurred fertile (and often heated) discussions both within, and between, a diverse range of disciplines. Yet atheism, and the New Atheism, are by no means co-extensive. Interesting though it indeed is, the New Atheism is a single, historically and culturally specific manifestation of positive atheism (the belief that there is/are no God/s), which is itself but one form of a far deeper, broader, and more significant global phenomenon. The Oxford Handbook of Atheism is a pioneering edited volume, exploring atheism - understood in the broad sense of 'an absence of belief in the existence of a God or gods' - in all the richness and diversity of its historical and contemporary expressions. Bringing together an international team of established and emerging scholars, it probes the varied manifestations and implications of unbelief from an array of disciplinary perspectives (philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, demography, psychology, natural sciences, gender and sexuality studies, literary criticism, film studies, musicology) and in a range of global contexts (Western Europe, North America, post-communist Europe, the Islamic world, Japan, India). Both surveying and synthesizing previous work, and presenting the major fruits of innovative recent research, the handbook is set to be a landmark text for the study of atheism.

Table of Contents:
Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse: Introduction: The Study of Atheism 1: Definitions and Debates 1: Stephen Bullivant: Defining Atheism 2: T. J. Mawson: The Case against Atheism 3: A. C. Grayling: Critiques of Theistic Arguments 4: Graham Oppy: Arguments for Atheism 5: Michael L. Peterson: Problems of Evil 6: Erik J. Wielenberg: Atheism and Morality 7: Kimberly A. Blessing: Atheism and the Meaningfulness of Life 8: Brian Davies: Aquinas and Atheism 2: History of (Western) Atheism 9: David Sedley: The Pre-Socratics to the Hellenistic Age 10: Mark Edwards: The First Millennium 11: Dorothea Weltecke: The Medieval Period 12: Denis Robichaud: Renaissance and Reformation 13: Alan Charles Kors: The Age of Enlightenment 14: David Nash: The (Long) Nineteenth Century 15: Callum Brown: The Twentieth Century 16: Thomas Zenk: New Atheism 3: Worldviews and Systems 17: Stephen Law: Humanism 18: Alison Stone: Existentialism 19: Peter Thompson: Marxism 20: Charles Pigden: Analytic Philosophy 21: Jacques Berlinerblau: Jewish Atheism 22: Andrew Skilton: Buddhism 23: Anne Vallely: Jainism 24: Jessica Frazier: Hinduism 4: Atheism and the Natural Sciences 25: Michael Ruse: Naturalism and the Scientific Method 26: Taner Edis: Atheism and the Rise of Science 27: David P. Barash: Atheism and Darwinism 28: Victor J. Stenger: Atheism and the Physical Sciences 5: Atheism and the Social Sciences 29: Frank L. Pasquale and Barry A. Kosmin: Atheism and the Secularization Thesis 30: Miguel Farias: Psychology of Atheism 31: Jonathan Lanman: Atheism and Cognitive Science 32: Phil Zuckerman: Atheism and Societal Health 33: Melanie A. Brewster: Atheism, Gender, and Sexuality 34: Karen Hwang: Atheism, Health and Well-being 35: Ralph W. Hood and Zhuo Chen: Conversion and Deconversion 6: Global Expressions 36: Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera: A World of Atheism: Global Demographics 37: Lois Lee: Western Europe 38: Ryan T. Cragun, Joseph H. Hammer, Jesse M. Smith: North America 39: Irena Borowik, Branko An%ci'c, Rados/law Tyra/la: Central and Eastern Europe 40: Samuli Schielke: Islamic World 41: Johannes Quack: India 42: Sarah Whylly: Japan 7: Atheism and the Arts 43: Bernard Schweizer: Literature 44: J. Sage Elwell: Visual Arts 45: Paul Bertagnolli: Music 46: Nina Power: Film

About the Author :
Stephen Bullivant is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, St Mary's University College. Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University.

Review :
...a touchstone reference work in the study of atheism and related phenomena, and the editors and contributors are to be commended for producing an accessible refer-ence text containing world-leading, original scholarship that will stand the test of time. This collection will be warmly welcomed by philosophers of religion, philosophers of science, historians of ideas, andmetaphysicians for themany fresh angles it opens up on familiar difficulties with defining atheism ... the volume provides an especially gratifying richness of reflection on its strengths and weaknesses as a full-fledged philosophical outlook a truly interdisciplinary and comprehensive review ... All of the chapters are well-written and coverage of major philosophers and movements is extensive ... an essential resource. No library should be without it. The Oxford Handbook of Atheism is a momentous achievement, displaying a depth and breadth that is unlikely to be equaled The Oxford Handbook of Atheism is an essential resource. No library should be without it.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199644650
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 52 mm
  • Width: 178 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0199644659
  • Publisher Date: 21 Nov 2013
  • Height: 253 mm
  • No of Pages: 784
  • Series Title: Oxford Handbooks
  • Weight: 1502 gr


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