Religion and the New Atheism

Amarnath Amarasingam is a doctoral candidate in the Laurier-Waterloo PhD in Religious Studies in Ontario, Canada. He has published articles in The Journal of Contemporary Religion, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, as well as Mental Health, Religion and Culture.

• AcknowledgementsForeword, Richard HarriesPreface, Reza AslanIntroduction: What is the New Atheism?, Amarnath AmarasingamI. Religion and the New AtheismJudaism and Atheism: The Challenge of Secular Humanism, Robert PlatznerBeating 'God' to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism, Jeffrey Robbins and Christopher RodkeyReligion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in The End of Faith, Rory DicksonII. Science and the New AtheismWhat Has Atheism Ever Done for Science?, Steve FullerCognitive Science and the New Atheism, William Sims BainbridgeIII. Sociology and the New AtheismOne-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism, William A. StahlThe New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?, Stephen BullivantThe New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis, Michael BorerThe New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers, Richard Cimino and Christopher SmithIV. Philosophy, Ethics and the New AtheismEthics, Out-Group Altruism, and the New Atheism, Gregory R. PetersonDisparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature, Jeff NallIs God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion, Ryan FalcioniAfterword, Mark VernonAbout the AuthorsReferencesIndex

"This collection is...certainly critical, in the positive sense, and it is also a good read." - James V. Spickard, in: Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, Vol. 73, no. 1 (2012), pp. 94-96"Religion and the New Atheism [is] a compelling and comprehensive account of the numerous approaches to the criticism of religion that new atheism offers. The books of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens are not written with academic and intellectual rigour in mind but as a means of presenting the case for radical Enlightenment atheism to a lay audience...required reading for all of those who wish to see scholarly engagement with the implications that new atheism has for a whole range of disciplines that touch on the issue of religion and religious belief." - Jolyon Charles Leslie Agar, in: Journal of Critical Realism, 11.2 (2012): pp. 225-246"Amarasingam’s volume is indispensable to studying the New Atheism [...]" - Teemu Taira, in: Temenos: Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 47(1): 116-122 (2011)"Religion and the New Atheism sets an example for what will surely be in-depth study in years to come." - David M. Csaszar, in: Journal of Contemporary Religion (cJCR) 27.1 (January 2012)