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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Alternative belief systems > Humanist & secular alternatives to religion > Agnosticism & atheism

Atheism Explained - From Folly to Philosophy (Paperback): David Ramsay Steele Atheism Explained - From Folly to Philosophy (Paperback)
David Ramsay Steele
R853 R742 Discovery Miles 7 420 Save R111 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Atheism Explained" explores the claims made both for and against the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the world can only be explained by an intelligent creator; that the universe had to start somewhere; telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate the existence of a spirit world; and that those who experience God directly provide evidence as real as any physical finding. After disputing these arguments through calm, careful criticism, author David Ramsay Steele presents the reasons why God cannot exist: monstrous, appalling evils; the impossibility of omniscience; and the senseless concept that God is a thinking mind without a brain. He also explores controversial topics such as Intelligent Design, the power of prayer, religion without God, and whether a belief in God makes people happier and healthier. Steele's rational, easy-to-understand prose helps readers form their own conclusions about this eternally thorny topic.

Welcome to Our Real Matrix - One With No Escape (Paperback): Tom Arant Welcome to Our Real Matrix - One With No Escape (Paperback)
Tom Arant
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In My Gut, I Don't Believe - A Memoir (Paperback): Joe Armstrong In My Gut, I Don't Believe - A Memoir (Paperback)
Joe Armstrong
R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Secular Paradox - On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (Hardcover): Joseph Blankholm The Secular Paradox - On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (Hardcover)
Joseph Blankholm
R3,184 R2,044 Discovery Miles 20 440 Save R1,140 (36%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A radically new way of understanding secularism which explains why being secular can seem so strangely religious For much of America’s rapidly growing secular population, religion is an inescapable source of skepticism and discomfort. It shows up in politics and in holidays, but also in common events like weddings and funerals. In The Secular Paradox, Joseph Blankholm argues that, despite their desire to avoid religion, nonbelievers often seem religious because Christianity influences the culture around them so deeply. Relying on several years of ethnographic research among secular activists and organized nonbelievers in the United States, the volume explores how very secular people are ambivalent toward belief, community, ritual, conversion, and tradition. As they try to embrace what they share, secular people encounter, again and again, that they are becoming too religious. And as they reject religion, they feel they have lost too much. Trying to strike the right balance, secular people alternate between the two sides of their ambiguous condition: absolutely not religious and part of a religion-like secular tradition. Blankholm relies heavily on the voices of women and people of color to understand what it means to live with the secular paradox. The struggles of secular misfits—the people who mis-fit normative secularism in the United States—show that becoming secular means rejecting parts of life that resemble Christianity and embracing a European tradition that emphasizes reason and avoids emotion. Women, people of color, and secular people who have left non-Christian religions work against the limits and contradictions of secularism to create new ways of being secular that are transforming the American religious landscape. They are pioneering the most interesting and important forms of secular “religiosity” in America today.

The Science Spell (Paperback): Chris Spark The Science Spell (Paperback)
Chris Spark
R366 R340 Discovery Miles 3 400 Save R26 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Atheists in American Politics - Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries (Paperback):... Atheists in American Politics - Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries (Paperback)
Richard J. Meagher
R1,027 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R616 (60%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Today atheists, it seems, are everywhere. Nonbelievers write best-selling books and proudly defend their views in public; they have even hired a lobbyist. But, as political scientist Richard J. Meagher shows, atheist political activism is not a new phenomenon. From the "Freethought" movement of the late 1800s, to postwar "rationalists" and "humanists," to today's proud atheists, nonbelievers have called for change within a resistant political culture. While atheist organizing typically has been a relatively lonely and sad affair, advances in technology and new political opportunities have helped atheists to finally gain at least some measure of legitimacy in American politics. In Atheists in American Politics, one of the first works to take atheism seriously as a social movement, Meagher highlights key moments within the political history of atheism and freethought, and examines how the changing circumstances that surround the movement help explain political mobilization. In doing so, this book also highlights the ways that social movements in general gain momentum, and how a number of interlocking factors are often necessary to enable a movement to "take off" in American politics.

Outgrowing God - A Beginner's Guide (Paperback): Richard Dawkins Outgrowing God - A Beginner's Guide (Paperback)
Richard Dawkins 1
R334 R302 Discovery Miles 3 020 Save R32 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't. Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chapters that address some of the most profound questions human beings confront, Dawkins marshals science, philosophy and comparative religion to interrogate the hypocrisies of all the religious systems and explain to readers of all ages how life emerged without a Creator, how evolution works and how our world came into being. For anyone hoping to grapple with the meaning of life and what to believe, Outgrowing God is a challenging, thrilling and revelatory read.

Seeking Common Ground (Paperback): Andrew Fiala, Peter Admirand Seeking Common Ground (Paperback)
Andrew Fiala, Peter Admirand; Foreword by Jack Moline
R894 R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Save R122 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Refuting the New Atheists - A Christian Response to Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins (Paperback): Douglas... Refuting the New Atheists - A Christian Response to Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Richard Dawkins (Paperback)
Douglas Wilson
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
An Atheist's Letters to Heaven (Paperback): Naimbai Njerakey An Atheist's Letters to Heaven (Paperback)
Naimbai Njerakey
R572 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Reasonable God - Engaging the New Face of Atheism (Hardcover): Gregory E Ganssle A Reasonable God - Engaging the New Face of Atheism (Hardcover)
Gregory E Ganssle
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Calmly engaging the philosophical arguments posed by best-selling authors Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins, and to a lesser extent, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, Gregory Ganssle's A Reasonable God is a nuanced, charitable, and philosophically well-informed defense of the existence of God. Eschewing the rhetoric and provocative purposes of the New Atheists, Ganssle instead lucidly and objectively analyzes each argument on its own philosophical merits, to see how persuasive they prove to be. Surveying topics including the relationship between faith and reason, moral arguments for the existence of God, the Darwinian theories of the origin of religion, he pays particular attention to, and ultimately rejects, what he determines is the strongest logical argument against the existence of god posed by the new atheists, put forth by Dawkins: that our universe resembles more of what an atheistic universe would be like than it does with what a theistic universe would be like.

God is Good (Paperback): Martin G Kuhrt God is Good (Paperback)
Martin G Kuhrt; Foreword by Alex Jacob
R837 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Save R261 (31%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Answering the Music Man (Paperback): B Kyle Keltz, Tricia Scribner Answering the Music Man (Paperback)
B Kyle Keltz, Tricia Scribner; Foreword by Richard Land
R790 R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Save R101 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Simon versus Simon - The Story of Lucius and the Magician's Duel (Paperback): Philip E Sears Simon versus Simon - The Story of Lucius and the Magician's Duel (Paperback)
Philip E Sears
R537 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Humanist's Devotional - 366 Daily Meditations from Some of the World's Greatest Thinkers (Paperback): Jessica Hagy The Humanist's Devotional - 366 Daily Meditations from Some of the World's Greatest Thinkers (Paperback)
Jessica Hagy; Illustrated by Jessica Hagy
R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience - Atheism in American Culture (Hardcover): Jerome P. Baggett The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience - Atheism in American Culture (Hardcover)
Jerome P. Baggett
R2,260 R1,999 Discovery Miles 19 990 Save R261 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A fascinating exploration of the breadth of social, emotional, and spiritual experiences of atheists in America Self-identified atheists make up roughly 5 percent of the American religious landscape, comprising a larger population than Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus combined. In spite of their relatively significant presence in society, atheists are one of the most stigmatized groups in the United States, frequently portrayed as immoral, unhappy, or even outright angry. Yet we know very little about what their lives are actually like as they live among their largely religious, and sometimes hostile, fellow citizens. In this book, Jerome P. Baggett listens to what atheists have to say about their own lives and viewpoints. Drawing on questionnaires and interviews with more than five hundred American atheists scattered across the country, The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience uncovers what they think about morality, what gives meaning to their lives, how they feel about religious people, and what they think and know about religion itself. Though the wider public routinely understands atheists in negative terms, as people who do not believe in God, Baggett pushes readers to view them in a different light. Rather than simply rejecting God and religion, atheists actually embrace something much more substantive-lives marked by greater integrity, open-mindedness, and progress. Beyond just talking about or to American atheists, the time is overdue to let them speak for themselves. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in joining the conversation.

Laconics of Cult (Paperback): Ingersoll Lockwood Laconics of Cult (Paperback)
Ingersoll Lockwood
R149 Discovery Miles 1 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God Can't - How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils (Paperback): Thomas Jay Oord God Can't - How to Believe in God and Love after Tragedy, Abuse, and Other Evils (Paperback)
Thomas Jay Oord
R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modern Madness - Rhymes Against Humanity (Paperback): Ross Adamson Modern Madness - Rhymes Against Humanity (Paperback)
Ross Adamson
R324 R303 Discovery Miles 3 030 Save R21 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Atheist's Primer (Paperback, New): Malcolm Murray The Atheist's Primer (Paperback, New)
Malcolm Murray
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Athiest's Primer is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to a variety of arguments, concepts, and issues pertaining to belief in God. In lucid and engaging prose, Malcom Murray offers a penetrating yet fair-minded critique of the traditional arguments for the existence of God. He then explores a number of other important issues relevant to religious belief, such as the problem of suffering and the relationship between religion and morality, in each case arguing that atheism is preferable to theism. The book will appeal to both students and professionals in the philosophy of religion, as well as general audiences interested in the topic.

Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None (Paperback): Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None (Paperback)
Friedrich Nietzsche; Translated by Thomas Common; Introduction by Elizabeth Foerster Nietzsche; Notes by Anthony M. Ludovici
R430 Discovery Miles 4 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The New Atheism - 10 arguments that don't hold water (Paperback, New edition): Michael Poole The New Atheism - 10 arguments that don't hold water (Paperback, New edition)
Michael Poole
R152 R138 Discovery Miles 1 380 Save R14 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Recently, the "new" atheists have been putting out books, articles, bus ads, and TV programs in attempts to sway people to their cause. Through these tactics they've managed to gain a large amount of public attention and media exposure--but do their arguments really hold water? Using the analogy put forward by esteemed philosopher Anthony Flew, Michael Poole examines the new atheists' use of the "10 leaky buckets" tactic of argumentation--presenting readers with a sum of arguments that are each individually defective, as though the cumulative effect should be persuasive. This closer look at the facts reveals that the buckets are, indeed, leaky.

The Reluctant Apostate - Leaving Jehovah's Witnesses Comes at a Price (Paperback): Lloyd Evans The Reluctant Apostate - Leaving Jehovah's Witnesses Comes at a Price (Paperback)
Lloyd Evans
R836 Discovery Miles 8 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Writers on... Atheism (A Book of Quotations, Poems and Literary Reflections) - (A Book of Quotations, Poems and Literary... Writers on... Atheism (A Book of Quotations, Poems and Literary Reflections) - (A Book of Quotations, Poems and Literary Reflections) (Paperback)
Amelia Carruthers
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Atheist Coloring and Activity Book (Paperback): John Simons The Atheist Coloring and Activity Book (Paperback)
John Simons; Illustrated by Chelsea Webb
R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Atheist Coloring and Activity Book is a complete course on the world view of Atheism meant for adults.

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