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Religion and Atheism in Dialogue will interest anyone who is concerned about the clash between the religious and the secular and how to move beyond it, as well as students of ethics, philosophy of religion and religious studies.
List of contents
Preface Anthony Carroll and Richard Norman
Part 1: The 'God' Debate 1. The Religion and Atheism Project: Some Initial Reflections
Brian Pearce 2. Beyond Transcendence
Julian Baggini 3. Transcendence
Fiona Ellis 4. Transcendence, Immanence and Panentheism
Michael Brierley 5. God and Being: Resonance and Analogy
Richard Norman 6. Personal presence, analogy and resonance: a dialogue
Robin Gill 7. Postscript: Without Naming God
Brian Pearce Part 2: Opportunities for Convergence 8. The Kindness of Strangers: Empathy, Altruism, and the Case for Convergence
John Saxbee 9. Can Humanists be Spiritual?
Jeremy Rodell 10. Understanding Spiritual Experience: Two Approaches or One?
David Scott 11. The Spiritual and the Religious: Interlinked or Separable?
John Cottingham 12. Moral Failure and Spiritual Practice
Michael McGhee 13. Persons and communities transformed by practices
George Guiver 14. Ritual for the Non-religious
Elizabeth Slade 15. Science, Humanism, and Religion
Raymond Tallis 16. Make Up a Story
Joanna Kavenna 17. Physics, humanism and openness
Andrew Steane Part 3: Religion and Diversity 18. Religion, Non-religion and Values: What has changed and what stays the same?
Linda Woodhead and Andrew Copson 19. "The Wonder of Diversity": a Gift to Global Ethics
Alan Race 20. Catholicism and Atheism
Peter Huff 21. Atheism and Esoterism: A Muslim Perspective
Reza Shah-Kazemi 22. Faith, Sexuality and Gender: Navigating Difficult Conversations
Christopher Lynch 23. Gender, Islam and Dialogue: a Muslim feminist perspective on navigating 'hard-to-have' conversations
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor Part 4: Conclusion 24. Doing Difference Differently
Anthony Carroll and Richard Norman. Index
About the author
Anthony J. Carroll is a philosopher, theologian, and parish priest in Andalusia, Spain. His previous books include
Protestant Modernity: Weber, Secularisation and Protestantism;
Il Giardiniere Invisibile: Credere, Non Credere, Cercare; and most recently
A History of Philosophy: The Condensed Copleston. He was co-editor with Richard Norman of
Religion and Atheism: Beyond the Divide (Routledge, 2016).
Richard Norman is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Kent and a Patron of Humanists UK. His books include On Humanism (Routledge, second edition, 2012),
Understanding Humanism (with Andrew Copson and Luke Donnellan; Routledge, 2022), and
What Is Humanism For? (2025).
