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.
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