Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 37)

Contents
Atheisms: Plural Contexts of Being Godless
	Abstract
	Acknowledgements
	References
Correction to: Atheisms: Plural Contexts of Being Godless
Defining ‘Religion’ and ‘Atheism’
	Abstract
	Definition
	Wars of ‘Religion’
	Wars of ‘Atheism’
	Contestation
	Ameliorative Definition
	‘Religion’ and ‘Atheism’ in Non-Western Contexts
	Concluding Remarks
	Acknowledgements
	References
Has God Been and Gone?
	The Human Predicament
		How Might We Cope—God Absent?
	The Great Republic and Its Constitution: Trumped!
		The Decline of Politics?
	I a Stranger and Afraid: In a World I Never Made. A.E. Housman18
	Worrying about The Fall: Nastika?
	Types of Atheism
	Wallace Stevens’ Quasi-Atheism: The Christian Worldview: Some Candid Remarks about Its Difficulties
	The Holy Trinity: Problems of Reference in Stevens’ Esthétique du Mal
	Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Kernel of Religion
	Is God After You, Like It or Not?
	The Prosperity Gospel
	References
Religious Conversion and Loss of Faith: Cases of Personal Paradigm Shift?
	Abstract
	Introduction
	The Nature of Scientific Paradigm Shifts
	First-Personal and Impersonal Incommensurability
	Anthony Kenny
	Janet Martin Soskice
	David Cooper
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
On Being an Infidel
	Abstract
	I
	II
	References
Confessions of an Agnostic: Apologia Pro Vita Sua
	Abstract
	Definitions
	Distinctions
	Growing up
	And So to Arkansas
	And the World Said?
	So to Agnosticism
	References
The Missing God of Heidegger and Karl Jaspers: Too late for God; too Early for the Gods—with a vignette from Indian Philosophy
	Abstract
	Martin Heidegger: Too Late for God
	Jaspers: the Idea of God
	Indian Philosophical Response: Too early for the Gods
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Atheism is Nothing but an Expression of Buddha-Nature
	Abstract
	Introduction1
	God is dead
	‘When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha’
	Nishida’s ‘atheology’
	Taylor’s ‘postmodern atheology’
	Dōgen’s philosophy of expression
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
From a Certain Point of View… Jain Theism and Atheism
	The Jain Tradition: Theistic or Atheistic?
	Jain Ontology: What Does Exist?
	Jain Morality: an Atheistic Ethos
	Implications of Jain Ethics for Jain Epistemology and Ontology: the Anekānta Doctrine
	Conclusion
	References
Zero: nonexistence, science and fundamental
	Abstract
	Introduction
	Conceptualization of Zero
		Nothing
		Much Ado About a Placeholder
		Invention of Zero
	The Philosophical Base of Zero and Its Operations
	Journey of Zero
	Zero: a Seed of Modern Science
	Zero: a Number of Convenience
	Implications for the Fundamental
	The Philosophy of Zero and Other Philosophies of Mathematics: a Difference
	Summary and Conclusions
	References
Can Nāstikas Taste Āstika Poetry? Tagore’s Poetry and the Critique of Secularity
	Abstract
	Reading Historically: Setting the Historical Context Correctly
	The Context of Secularity: Our Context
	Tagore’s Context
	Constituents of Tagore’s Poetic World
	Upaniṣadic Wonder
	Reading the Poetry of the World: Kashmiri Saivism
	Listening to the Music of the World: Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
	God’s Presence
	God’s Presence as Nature
	God’s Presence in Human Life
	The World of History Around the World of Art
	References
‘And Therefore I Hasten to Return My Ticket’: Anti-theodicy Radicalised
Raimon Panikkar’s Cosmotheandric Secularity, Wilber’s Integral Theory: Living With and Without the Divine
	Abstract
	Raimon Panikkar’s Cosmotheandric Mythos
	The Silence of the Divine
	Panikkar’s Cosmotheandric Epigram
	Sacred Secularity
	Intercultural Dialogue
	Ken Wilber’s Integral Philosophy: Integral Theory
	Wilber’s AQAL Model
	Integral Post-Metaphysics
	The Three Faces of Spirit
	Integral Methodological Pluralism
	Jorge Ferrer’s Participatory Spirituality
	Christopher Hareesh Wallis: Nondual Śaiva Tantra
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	References
Postsecularity and the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, and Carol Ann Duffy
	Abstract
	Introduction: a Crisis of Faith in Twenty-First Century Secularism
	Postsecularity in Philosophy and Poetry
	‘A Heap of Broken Images’: T.S. Eliot and Partial Faith
	‘Each One Upon Each Other Glared’: Stevie Smith and Spiritual Pluralism
	‘Some are Brought to their Knees’: Carol Ann Duffy and Postreligious Resacralization
	References
Correction to: Postsecularity and the Poetry of T.S. Eliot, Stevie Smith, and Carol Ann Duffy
‘Do You Believe in God, Doctor?’ The Atheism of Fiction and the Fiction of Atheism
	Abstract
	Disbelief: ‘Fumbling in the Dark’
	Humanism: ‘Some Rare Kind of Fever’
	Divinity: ‘Today the Truth Is a Red Spear Pointing Towards Salvation’
	References