The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics
Thoughtful essays to revive dialogue about atheism beyond belief.
 
The Varieties of Atheism reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism’s diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age.
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The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics
Thoughtful essays to revive dialogue about atheism beyond belief.
 
The Varieties of Atheism reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism’s diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age.
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The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics

The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics

by David Newheiser (Editor)
The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics

The Varieties of Atheism: Connecting Religion and Its Critics

by David Newheiser (Editor)

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Thoughtful essays to revive dialogue about atheism beyond belief.
 
The Varieties of Atheism reveals the diverse nonreligious experiences obscured by the combative intellectualism of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens. In fact, contributors contend that narrowly defining atheism as the belief that there is no god misunderstands religious and nonreligious persons altogether. The essays show that, just as religion exceeds doctrine, atheism also encompasses every dimension of human life: from imagination and feeling to community and ethics. Contributors offer new, expansive perspectives on atheism’s diverse history and possible futures. By recovering lines of affinity and tension between particular atheists and particular religious traditions, this book paves the way for fruitful conversation between religious and non-religious people in our secular age.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226822686
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/09/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 431 KB

About the Author

David Newheiser is a senior research fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. He is the author of Hope in a Secular Age: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and the Future of Faith.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Genealogy of Atheism
   David Newheiser
1 Atheism and Science: On Einstein’s “Cosmic Religious Sense”
   Mary-Jane Rubenstein
2 Atheism and Society: Hume’s Prefiguration of Rorty
   Andre C. Willis
3 Atheism and Power: Nietzsche, Nominalism, and the Reductive Spirit
   Denys Turner
4 Atheism and Ethics: Recovering the Link between Truth and Transformation
   Susannah Ticciati
5 Atheism and Metaphysics: A Problem of Apophatic Theology
   Henning Tegtmeyer
6 Atheism and Politics: Abandonment, Absence, and the Empty Throne
   Devin Singh
7 Atheism and Literature: Living without God in Dante’s Comedy
   Vittorio Montemaggi
8 Atheism and the Affirmation of Life: Dostoevsky’s Response to Russian Nihilism
   George Pattison
Afterword: The Drama of Atheism
   Constance M. Furey
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
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