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The Politics of New Atheism (Hardcover)
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The Politics of New Atheism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
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New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which
has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious
arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and
Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political
dimensions. This book analyses the political aspects of new atheism
and offers an analysis that is informed by insights from political
science and political theory. The authors locate new atheism within
a diverse history of politically-oriented atheisms. It is argued
the new atheist movement itself contains a considerable variety of
political viewpoints, despite coalescing around forms of secularist
campaigning and identity politics. New atheist views on monotheism,
public life, morality and religious violence are examined to
highlight both limitations and strengths in such perspectives.
Conservative, feminist and Marxist responses to new atheism are
also evaluated within this critical analysis. The book rejects
claims that new atheism is itself a form of fundamentalism and
argues that the issues it grapples with often reflect wider
dilemmas in liberal-left thought which have ongoing relevance in
the era of Trump and Brexit. It will be of great interest to
researchers and scholars in the fields of new atheism, political
atheism, secularism, non-religion, and secular-religious tensions.
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