The Oxford Handbook of Atheism

1021 Pages·2014·5.74 MB·English

by  Stephen Bullivant

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
ATHEISM
THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
ATHEISM
Edited by
STEPHEN BULLIVANT
and
MICHAEL RUSE
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: The Study of Atheism
STEPHEN BULLIVANT AND MICHAEL RUSE
PART I DEFINITIONS AND DEBATES
1. Defining ‘Atheism’
STEPHEN BULLIVANT
2. The Case against Atheism
T. J. MAWSON
3. Critiques of Theistic Arguments
A. C. GRAYLING
4. Arguments for Atheism
GRAHAM OPPY
5. The Problem of Evil
MICHAEL L. PETERSON
6. Atheism and Morality
ERIK J. WIELENBERG
7. Atheism and the Meaningfulness of Life
KIMBERLY A. BLESSING
8. Aquinas and Atheism
BRIAN DAVIES
PART II HISTORY OF (WESTERN) ATHEISM
9. From the Pre-Socratics to the Hellenistic Age
DAVID SEDLEY
10. The First Millennium
MARK EDWARDS
11. The Medieval Period
DOROTHEA WELTECKE
12. Renaissance and Reformation
DENIS J.-J. ROBICHAUD
13. The Age of Enlightenment
ALAN CHARLES KORS
14. The (Long) Nineteenth Century
DAVID NASH
15. The Twentieth Century
CALLUM G. BROWN
16. New Atheism
THOMAS ZENK
PART III WORLDVIEWS AND SYSTEMS
17. Humanism
STEPHEN LAW
18. Existentialism
ALISON STONE
19. Marxism
PETER THOMPSON
20. Analytic Philosophy
CHARLES PIGDEN
21. Jewish Atheism
JACQUES BERLINERBLAU
22. Buddhism
ANDREW SKILTON
23. Jainism
ANNE VALLELY
24. Hinduism
JESSICA FRAZIER
PART IV ATHEISM AND THE NATURAL SCIENCES
25. Naturalism and the Scientific Method
MICHAEL RUSE
26. Atheism and the Rise of Science
TANER EDIS
27. Atheism and Darwinism
DAVID P. BARASH
28. Atheism and the Physical Sciences
VICTOR J. STENGER
PART V ATHEISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
29. Atheism and the Secularization Thesis
FRANK L. PASQUALE AND BARRY A. KOSMIN
30. The Psychology of Atheism
MIGUEL FARIAS
31. Atheism and Cognitive Science
JONATHAN A. LANMAN
32. Atheism and Societal Health
PHIL ZUCKERMAN
33. Atheism, Gender, and Sexuality
MELANIE ELYSE BREWSTER
34. Atheism, Health, and Well-Being
KAREN HWANG
35. Conversion and Deconversion
RALPH W. HOOD JR. AND ZHUO CHEN
PART VI GLOBAL EXPRESSIONS
36. A World of Atheism: Global Demographics
ARIELA KEYSAR AND JUHEM NAVARRO-RIVERA
37. Western Europe
LOIS LEE
38. North America
RYAN T. CRAGUN, JOSEPH H. HAMMER, AND JESSE M. SMITH
39. Central and Eastern Europe
IRENA BOROWIK, BRANKO ANČIĆ, AND RADOSŁAW TYRAŁA
40. The Islamic World
SAMULI SCHIELKE
41. India
JOHANNES QUACK
42. Japan
SARAH WHYLLY
PART VII ATHEISM AND THE ARTS
43. Literature
BERNARD SCHWEIZER
44. The Visual Arts
J. SAGE ELWELL
45. Music
PAUL A. BERTAGNOLLI
46. Film
NINA POWER
Index