The New Atheism, myth, and history : the black legends of contemporary anti-religion / Nathan Johnstone.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnstone, Nathan (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:
Atheism > 21st century.
Atheism.
2000-2099
Physical Description:xiv, 309 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: history and the new atheism
  • Superstition and the stake: witch-hunting and the terrible consequences of believing in the supernatural
  • Faith and the stake: heresy and religious totalitarianism
  • Chalking up six million deaths to religion: appropriating the Holocaust
  • The rational tradition and atomism
  • Heroes and martyrs: witch-hunting and the dangers of scepticism
  • The hostile utopia: atheist oppression and the assault on religion in the USSR
  • From Spanigh Toca to the American waterboard: the strange yardstick of ethical progress
  • Atheism, religion and the myth of cultural distance
  • The moderation of the unfinished thought: militancy, polemical cavalierism and atheisms.