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.

Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh.

Résumé

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Roy Llera (EDT)/ Oustinova-stjepanovic 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 Relié
• Sortie: 31.05.2017
• EAN: 9781785336287
• ISBN: 978-1-78533-628-7
• Pages: 154
• Thèmes: Studies in Social Analysis; Studies in Social Analysis; Studies in Social Analysis, 1
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Ethnologie > Ethnologie; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Atheism, RELIGION / Agnosticism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Agnosticism and atheism, Agnosticism & Atheism, Anthropology (General); Anthropology of Religion