Being Godless - Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.

Table des matières

Introduction: Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism

Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 1. Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain

Lois Lee

Chapter 2. Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism

Jacob Copeman and Johannes Quack

Chapter 3. Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola

Ruy Llera Blanes and Abel Paxe

Chapter 4. Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt

Paul-François Tremlett and Fang-Long Shih

Chapter 5. Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology

Sonja Luehrmann

Chapter 6. Confessional Anthropology

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Chapter 7. On Atheism and Non-religion: An Afterword

Matthew Engelke

Bibliograpghy

Index

A propos de l'auteur

Roy Llera Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council.

Résumé

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion.

Texte suppl.

“This [insightful volume] is a much-needed collection of multiple explanations of lived atheisms and non-religion from different settings…[It] will attract anthropologists and the general reader alike.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)

“The individual chapters and the introduction all contribute to advancing and nuancing existing theories of ‘non-religion’, religious disaffiliation, atheism, etc., and is, on the whole rather innovative, and well written.” • Anthropological Notebooks

“The volume excels at making clear the importance of geographic context in considering non-religion and society while simultaneously presenting research that raises big questions about contemporary non-religion…a sound contribution to the study of non-religion.” • Reading Religion

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Roy Llera Oustinova-Stjepanovic Blanes, Ruy Llera Blanes, Ruy Llera (EDT)/ Oustinova-stjepanovic Blanes, Roy Llera Oustinova-Stjepanovic Blanes Blanes, Ruy Llera Blanes
• Collaboration: Roy Llera Blanes (Editeur), Ruy Llera Blanes (Editeur), Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic (Editeur)
• Edition: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781785335730
• ISBN: 978-1-78533-573-0
• Pages: 154
• Thèmes: Studies in Social Analysis; Studies in Social Analysis
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Atheism, RELIGION / Agnosticism, Social and cultural anthropology, Agnosticism and atheism, Agnosticism & Atheism, Anthropology (General), Anthropology of Religion