Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal (Studies in Critical Social Sciences: Studies in Critical Research on Religion 1)

Religion and the New Atheism
Copyright
Dedication
Series Editor Preface
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
1. Introduction: What is the New Atheism?
I. Religion and the New Atheism
	2. Judaism and Atheism: The Challenge of Secular Humanism
	3. Beating ‘God’ to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism
	4. Religion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in The End of Faith
II. Science and the New Atheism
	5. What Has Atheism Ever Done for Science?
	6. Cognitive Science and the New Atheism
III. Sociology and the New Atheism
	7. One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism
	8. The New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?
	9. The New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis
	10. The New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers
IV. Philosophy, Ethics and the New Atheism
	11. Ethics, Out-Group Altruism, and the New Atheism
	12. Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature
	13. Is God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion
Afterword
About the Authors
References
Index