This is the first full-length exploration of New Atheism within its wider social, cultural, intellectual, political contexts. Alan G. Nixon examines other nonreligious currents including the `rise of the Nones’ and the vibrancy of online atheist communities already well under way before the bestsellers Dawkins’ The God Delusion (2006) and Hitchens’ God is Not Great (2007) came along, alongside the social and political contexts such as 9/11 and concerns over science and religion teaching in schools. The book provides and draws on extensive global ethnographic data from digital...