Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Atheism

Nicolaou tours America's major traditional religions to see what, if anything, one might lack without God....

If you're looking for love without God, you've come to the right place.

Bart Nedelman takes the no-god, no-need-for-god proposition and makes the case that there is far more love, peace, civil liberty, and equality to go around when no God is around -- and a far more fulfilling personal freedom and spiritual upside to cutting God loose to fend for itself. Finding God, Losing God is a religious romp and a moral slugfest with Bart making the cost-benefit take of finding God or losing this archaic fiction and bottomless well of human misery well worth considering and...

How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Whitmarsh provides a bracing antidote to our assumptions about the roots of freethinking. By shining a...

"The Necessary Poetics of Atheism" collects poems and essays by three award-winning contemporary poets who demonstrate how atheism informs their poetics: as "a vehicle of political protest" in the work of MartIn Espada, as a form of activism and secular goodness in Lauren Marie Schmidt's poems, and as an aesthetic confrontation of a theistic worldview in J. D. Schraffenberger's writing. An enlightening foreword by the atheist philosopher Andrew Sneddon and a compelling introduction by poet Heid E. Erdrich invite us to read these "uneasy, contentious, complex, powerful, triumphant voices...

This compact, forcefully argued work calls Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and the rest of the so-called 'New Atheists' to account for failing to take seriously the historical record to which they so freely appeal when attacking religion.

This book seeks to account for and analyse the political aspects of the 'new atheism'. It 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 the new atheism has strongly political dimensions and this book offers an analysis of the politics of new atheism that is informed by insights from political science and political theory.

The book aims to:

• Understand new atheism in political terms,...

This book is a practical look at faith, reason and problem solving for dealing with the common realities we face, navigating the gaps between what we know and what we don't--for all things visible and invisible. Thinking means linking ideas. Analytical problem solving is about finding "truth" objectively, regardless of feelings, strong opinions, past experiences or intuition; finding truth even when empirical evidence is lacking or impossible to obtain. No one sees reality in its entirety, yet people firmly believe things they can't prove. We use base premises to judge things, whether...

Nicolaou tours America's major traditional religions to see what, if anything, one might lack without God....