The New Atheism, Myth, and History : the Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion / Nathan Johnstone.
Johnstone, Nathan, author.
2018
BL2747.3
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Title The New Atheism, Myth, and History : the Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion / Nathan Johnstone.
Author Johnstone, Nathan, author.
ISBN 9783319894560 (electronic book)
3319894560 (electronic book)
9783319894553
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Copyright ©2018
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Call Number BL2747.3
Dewey Decimal Classification 211.8
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 14, 2018).
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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.

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