Religion and the New Atheism
A Critical Appraisal
Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam, Laurier-Waterloo University
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Biographical note
Amarnath Amarasingam is a doctoral candidate in the Laurier-Waterloo PhD in Religious Studies in Ontario, Canada. He has published articles in The Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, as well as Mental Health, Religion and Culture.
Readership
All those interested in contemporary religion, religion and science, the sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, sociology of science, modernity, theology, and cultural studies.
Reviews
"This collection is...certainly critical, in the positive sense, and it is also a good read."
James V. Spickard, Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, Vol. 73, no. 1 (2012), pp. 94-96.
"Religion and the New Atheism [is] a compelling and comprehensive account of the numerous approaches to the criticism of religion that new atheism offers. The books of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens are not written with academic and intellectual rigour in mind but as a means of presenting the case for radical Enlightenment atheism to a lay audience...required reading for all of those who wish to see scholarly engagement with the implications that new atheism has for a whole range of disciplines that touch on the issue of religion and religious belief." Jolyon Charles Leslie Agar, Journal of Critical Realism, 11.2 (2012): pp. 225-246.
Amarasingam’s volume is indispensable to studying the New Atheism [...]
Teemu Taira, Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 47(1): 116-122 [2011]
Religion and the New Atheism sets an example for what will surely be in-depth study in years to come.
David M. Csaszar, Journal of Contemporary Religion (cJCR) 27.1 (January 2012 issue)
James V. Spickard, Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, Vol. 73, no. 1 (2012), pp. 94-96.
"Religion and the New Atheism [is] a compelling and comprehensive account of the numerous approaches to the criticism of religion that new atheism offers. The books of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens are not written with academic and intellectual rigour in mind but as a means of presenting the case for radical Enlightenment atheism to a lay audience...required reading for all of those who wish to see scholarly engagement with the implications that new atheism has for a whole range of disciplines that touch on the issue of religion and religious belief." Jolyon Charles Leslie Agar, Journal of Critical Realism, 11.2 (2012): pp. 225-246.
Amarasingam’s volume is indispensable to studying the New Atheism [...]
Teemu Taira, Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 47(1): 116-122 [2011]
Religion and the New Atheism sets an example for what will surely be in-depth study in years to come.
David M. Csaszar, Journal of Contemporary Religion (cJCR) 27.1 (January 2012 issue)
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword, Richard Harries
Preface, Reza Aslan
Introduction: What is the New Atheism?, Amarnath Amarasingam
I. Religion and the New Atheism
Judaism and Atheism: The Challenge of Secular Humanism, Robert Platzner
Beating 'God' to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism, Jeffrey Robbins and Christopher Rodkey
Religion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in The End of Faith, Rory Dickson
II. Science and the New Atheism
What Has Atheism Ever Done for Science?, Steve Fuller
Cognitive Science and the New Atheism, William Sims Bainbridge
III. Sociology and the New Atheism
One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism,
William A. Stahl
The New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?, Stephen Bullivant
The New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis, Michael Borer
The New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith
IV. Philosophy, Ethics and the New Atheism
Ethics, Out-Group Altruism, and the New Atheism, Gregory R. Peterson
Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature, Jeff Nall
Is God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion, Ryan Falcioni
Afterword, Mark Vernon
About the Authors
References
Index
Foreword, Richard Harries
Preface, Reza Aslan
Introduction: What is the New Atheism?, Amarnath Amarasingam
I. Religion and the New Atheism
Judaism and Atheism: The Challenge of Secular Humanism, Robert Platzner
Beating 'God' to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism, Jeffrey Robbins and Christopher Rodkey
Religion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in The End of Faith, Rory Dickson
II. Science and the New Atheism
What Has Atheism Ever Done for Science?, Steve Fuller
Cognitive Science and the New Atheism, William Sims Bainbridge
III. Sociology and the New Atheism
One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism,
William A. Stahl
The New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?, Stephen Bullivant
The New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis, Michael Borer
The New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith
IV. Philosophy, Ethics and the New Atheism
Ethics, Out-Group Altruism, and the New Atheism, Gregory R. Peterson
Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature, Jeff Nall
Is God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion, Ryan Falcioni
Afterword, Mark Vernon
About the Authors
References
Index
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