Intro
Contents
Atheisms: Plural Contexts of Being Godless
Abstract
Acknowledgements
References
Correction to: Atheisms: Plural Contexts of Being Godless
Defining 'Religion' and 'Atheism'
Abstract
Definition
Wars of 'Religion'
Wars of 'Atheism'
Contestation
Ameliorative Definition
'Religion' and 'Atheism' in Non-Western Contexts
Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Has God Been and Gone?
The Human Predicament
How Might We Cope-God Absent?
The Great Republic and Its Constitution: Trumped!
The Decline of Politics?

I a Stranger and Afraid: In a World I Never Made. A.E. Housman18
Worrying about The Fall: Nastika?
Types of Atheism
Wallace Stevens' Quasi-Atheism: The Christian Worldview: Some Candid Remarks about Its Difficulties
The Holy Trinity: Problems of Reference in Stevens' Esthétique du Mal
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Kernel of Religion
Is God After You, Like It or Not?
The Prosperity Gospel
References
Religious Conversion and Loss of Faith: Cases of Personal Paradigm Shift?
Abstract
Introduction
The Nature of Scientific Paradigm Shifts

First-Personal and Impersonal Incommensurability
Anthony Kenny
Janet Martin Soskice
David Cooper
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
On Being an Infidel
Abstract
I
II
References
Confessions of an Agnostic: Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Abstract
Definitions
Distinctions
Growing up
And So to Arkansas
And the World Said?
So to Agnosticism
References
The Missing God of Heidegger and Karl Jaspers: Too late for God
too Early for the Gods-with a vignette from Indian Philosophy
Abstract
Martin Heidegger: Too Late for God

Jaspers: the Idea of God
Indian Philosophical Response: Too early for the Gods
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Atheism is Nothing but an Expression of Buddha-Nature
Abstract
Introduction1
God is dead
'When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha'
Nishida's 'atheology'
Taylor's 'postmodern atheology'
Dōgen's philosophy of expression
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
From a Certain Point of View... Jain Theism and Atheism
The Jain Tradition: Theistic or Atheistic?
Jain Ontology: What Does Exist?
Jain Morality: an Atheistic Ethos

Implications of Jain Ethics for Jain Epistemology and Ontology: the Anekānta Doctrine
Conclusion
References
Zero: nonexistence, science and fundamental
Abstract
Introduction
Conceptualization of Zero
Nothing
Much Ado About a Placeholder
Invention of Zero
The Philosophical Base of Zero and Its Operations
Journey of Zero
Zero: a Seed of Modern Science
Zero: a Number of Convenience
Implications for the Fundamental
The Philosophy of Zero and Other Philosophies of Mathematics: a Difference
Summary and Conclusions
References