The New Atheism, Myth, and History

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Beschreibung

This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discrimination, whilst the darker side of atheist history, such as its involvement in Stalinism, is denied. At the same time, another constructed history¿that of a perpetual and one-sided conflict between religion and science/rationalism¿is commonly used by militant atheists to suggest the innate superiority of the non-religious mind. In a number of detailed case studies, the book traces how these myths have long been overturned by historians, and argues that the New Atheism¿s cavalier use of history is indicative of a troubling approach to the humanities in general. Nathan Johnstone engages directly with the God debate at an academic level and contributes to the emerging study of non-religion as a culture and an identity.

Über den Autor

Nathan Johnstone is a specialist in cultural and religious history, and is the author of The Devil and Demonism in Early Modern England. He has taught history at Canterbury Christ Church University and at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Zusammenfassung

Examines the role of history itself in the New Atheism

Provides in depth case studies of the polemical use of anti-religious myths contrasted with a detailed of the findings of academic historians

Provides an academic defense of history against its increasing casual cultural and polemical misuse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: History and the New Atheism.- Superstition and the Stake: Witch-hunting and the Terrible Consequences of Believing in the Supernatural.- Faith and the Stake: Heresy and Religious Totalitarianism.- Chalking up Six Million Deaths to Religion: Appropriating the Holocaust.- The Rational Tradition and Atomism.- Heroes and Martyrs: Witch-Hunting and the Dangers of Scepticism.- The Hostile Utopia: Atheist Oppression and the Assault on Religion in the USSR.- From the Spanish Toca to the American Waterboard: the Strange Yardstick of Ethical Progress.- Atheism, Religion and the Myth of Cultural Distance.- The Moderation of the Unfinished Thought: Militancy, Polemical Cavalierism and Atheisms.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Religion & Theologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xiv 309 S.
ISBN-13:	9783319894553
ISBN-10:	3319894552
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-89455-3
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Johnstone, Nathan
Auflage:	1st ed. 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Maße:	216 x 153 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Nathan Johnstone
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.06.2018
Gewicht:	0,533 kg

Artikel-ID: 111862924