TY - BOOK AU - Amarasingam,Amarnath TI - Religion and the new atheism: a critical appraisal T2 - Studies in critical social sciences, SN - 9789004190535 (electronic bk.) AV - BL2747.3 .R47 2010eb U1 - 211/.8 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Atheism KW - Religion KW - Controversial literature KW - History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - Description based on print version record; Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-249) and index; Introduction : what is the new atheism? / Amarnath Amarasingam -- Judaism and atheism : the challenge of secular humanism / Robert L. Platzner -- Beating 'God' to death : radical theology and the new atheism / Jeffrey W. Robbins and Christopher D. Rodkey -- Religion as phantasmagoria : Islam in The end of faith / Rory Dickson -- What has atheism ever done for science? / Steve Fuller -- Cognitive science and the new atheism / William Sims Bainbridge -- One-dimensional rage : the social epistemology of the new atheism and fundamentalism / William A. Stahl -- The new atheism and sociology : why here? why now? what next? / Stephen Bullivant -- The new atheism and the secularization thesis / Michael Ian Borer -- The new atheism and the empowerment of American freethinkers / Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith -- Ethics, out-group altruism, and the new atheism / Gregory R. Peterson -- Disparate destinations, parallel paths : an analysis of contemporary atheist and Christian parenting literature / Jeff Nall -- Is God a hypothesis? : the new atheism, contemporary philosophy of religion, and philosophical confusion / Ryan C. Falcioni UR - http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=338741 ER -