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000865942 1001_ $$aJohnstone, Nathan,$$eauthor.
000865942 24514 $$aThe New Atheism, Myth, and History :$$bthe Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion /$$cNathan Johnstone.
000865942 264_1 $$aCham, Switzerland :$$bPalgrave Macmillan,$$c[2018]
000865942 264_4 $$c©2018
000865942 300__ $$a1 online resource
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000865942 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000865942 5050_ $$aIntroduction: 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.
000865942 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000865942 520__ $$a"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, such as its involvement in Stalinism, is denied. At the same time, another constructed history--that of a perpetual and one-sided conflict between religion and science/rationalism--is commonly used by militant atheists to suggest the innate superiority of the non-religious mind. In a number of detailed case studies, the book traces how these myths have long been overturned by historians, and argues that the New Atheism's cavalier use of history is indicative of a troubling approach to the humanities in general. Nathan Johnstone engages directly with the God debate at an academic level and contributes to the emerging study of non-religion as a culture and an identity."--$$cProvided by publisher.
000865942 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 14, 2018).
000865942 650_0 $$aAtheism.
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