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An overview essay and approximately 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries explore the background and significance of atheism and agnosticism in modern society. This is the age of atheism and agnosticism. The number of people living without religious belief and practice is quickly and dramatically rising. Some experts call nonreligion, after Christianity and Islam, the third largest "religion" in the world today. Understanding the origins, history, variations, and impact of atheism and agnosticism is crucial to getting a grasp of the meaning of the present and gaining a glimpse of the future.Exploring some of the most extraordinary people, events, and ideas of all time, this book provides a fair, comprehensive, and engaging survey of all aspects of contemporary atheism and agnosticism. An overview essay discusses the background and social and political contexts of unbelief, while a timeline highlights key events. Some 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries follow, with each providing fundamental, objective information about particular topics along with cross-references and suggestions for further reading. The volume closes with an annotated bibliography of the most important resources on atheism and agnosticism.>
Sommario
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Overview
Chronology
Alphabetical List of EntriesAgnosticism
Amsterdam Declarations
Atheism
Atheism, New
Atheism 2.0
Atheism and Agnosticism, African American
Atheopaganism
Atheophobia
Beauvoir, Simone de
Besant, Annie
Bradlaugh, Charles
Cady Stanton, Elizabeth
Christianity, Atheism and Agnosticism in
Christina, Greta
Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins, Richard
Deism
Dennett, Daniel C.
Du Bois, W. E. B.
Feminism, Atheism and Agnosticism and
Feuerbach, Ludwig
Flew, Antony
Freud, Sigmund
Friendly Atheist, The
Goldman, Emma
Harris, Sam
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan
Hitchens, Christopher
Humanism
Humanist Manifestos
Humanist of the Year
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hutchinson, Sikivu
Huxleys, The
Ingersoll, Robert Green
"In God We Trust"
Islam, Atheism and Agnosticism in
Jacoby, Susan
Judaism, Atheism and Agnosticism in
Kristeva, Julia
Kurtz, Paul
LGBTQ+ Persons, Atheist and Agnostic
Marx, Karl
Media, Atheism and Agnosticism and the
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nones
O'Hair, Madalyn Murray
Organizations, Atheist and Agnostic
Pinn, Anthony B.
Proofs for God, Atheist and Agnostics Critiques of
Rand, Ayn
Reason Rally
Rushdie, Salman
Russell, Bertrand
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Singer, Peter
Skepticon
"Under God"
Zuckerman, Phil
Annotated Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Peter A. Huff is Director of the Center for Mission and Identity and Professor in the department of history, philosophy, religious studies, and global studies at Benedictine University, USA.
