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

• Main Author: Johnstone, Nathan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Secularism.; Religion-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; History of Religion.; History of Early Modern Europe.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• 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.