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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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2018.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.