In January 2006, a documentary entitled 'The Root of all Evil?' was
presented by Prof. Richard Dawkins on British television. In this
documentary, Dawkins advanced a number of arguments against
religion and in favour of atheism. This book reports a study that
looked at the introduction of Dawkins' ideas and their circulation
in the British public, through argumentation analyses of the
documentary and articles which appeared in the British press.
Subsequent interviews undertaken with people who expressed a belief
in a supernatural faith and others who did not revealed two
prevailing representations: that of religion as good, and that of
religion as evil. Further study revealed that religion, science,
and morality can be represented along three distinct continua. The
book dispels the idea of a single continuum along which religion
and science are organised; it demonstrates the complexity of the
representations in circulation and it highlights the relevance of
the study of belief systems for understanding social behaviour.
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