The New Atheism, Myth, and History The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion /

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,...

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Hlavný autor: Johnstone, Nathan (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:English
Vydavateľské údaje: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydanie:1st ed. 2018.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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