Becoming Atheist: Humanism and the Secular West
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- One by one -- Imagining secularization -- Of numbers and cultures -- What is the secular? -- Researching the little imagined atheist -- 2 Narratives of Belief and Unbelief -- Oral history and religion -- The Chri...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ Humanism
/ Atheism
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
| Further subjects: | B
Atheism
B Secularization (Theology) B Secularization (Theology) - History - 20th century B Electronic books B History B 1900-1999 B Secularism |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
Print version: Brown, Callum G: Becoming Atheist : Humanism and the Secular West. - London : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,c2017. - 9781474224499 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- One by one -- Imagining secularization -- Of numbers and cultures -- What is the secular? -- Researching the little imagined atheist -- 2 Narratives of Belief and Unbelief -- Oral history and religion -- The Christian self -- The fortified religious self -- Race and ethnicity -- The feminist liberation narrative -- Secularization narratives -- Conclusion -- 3 The Atheist Child -- Religion and child development -- Religious childhoods -- Growing up faithless -- Converting the family -- Childhood disaffection -- The child atheist -- 'What colour is life?' The youthful maturation of atheism -- 4 The Silent and Indifferent Atheist -- Approaching indifference -- The silence of non-belief -- The character of indifference -- Leaving indifference -- 5 Women, Feminism and Becoming Faithless -- Narrating the gendered non-religious self -- 'It's really rotten being a woman sometimes': Trauma and the family -- 'To be a person': Living feminism and the loss of religion -- The New Age and 'absolutely no god thing' -- Flying through the air -- 6 Men, Reason and Radicalism -- Absences and silences -- Reason - the male prerogative? -- Leaving the priesthood -- Reading -- Deserting dysfunction -- Trauma -- Being an atheist man -- 7 Atheism and Ethnicity -- The African American -- The Jews -- The Muslim -- The Hindus -- The whites -- It's not for me to judge humanism -- 8 The Humanist Condition -- After religion -- The hesitant atheist -- Finding the humanist condition -- Becoming atheist with a heart -- The transition generation -- Notes -- Sources -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1474224547 |