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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Hlavní autor: Johnstone, Nathan (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Témata:
Secularism.
Religion-History.
Europe-History-1492-.
ISBN:9783319894560
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Obsah:
  • 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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