Table of Contents

Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse: Introduction: The Study of Atheism
1: Definitions and Debates
1: Stephen Bullivant: Defining Atheism
2: T. J. Mawson: The Case against Atheism
3: A. C. Grayling: Critiques of Theistic Arguments
4: Graham Oppy: Arguments for Atheism
5: Michael L. Peterson: Problems of Evil
6: Erik J. Wielenberg: Atheism and Morality
7: Kimberly A. Blessing: Atheism and the Meaningfulness of Life
8: Brian Davies: Aquinas and Atheism
2: History of (Western) Atheism
9: David Sedley: The Pre-Socratics to the Hellenistic Age
10: Mark Edwards: The First Millennium
11: Dorothea Weltecke: The Medieval Period
12: Denis Robichaud: Renaissance and Reformation
13: Alan Charles Kors: The Age of Enlightenment
14: David Nash: The (Long) Nineteenth Century
15: Callum Brown: The Twentieth Century
16: Thomas Zenk: New Atheism
3: Worldviews and Systems
17: Stephen Law: Humanism
18: Alison Stone: Existentialism
19: Peter Thompson: Marxism
20: Charles Pigden: Analytic Philosophy
21: Jacques Berlinerblau: Jewish Atheism
22: Andrew Skilton: Buddhism
23: Anne Vallely: Jainism
24: Jessica Frazier: Hinduism
4: Atheism and the Natural Sciences
25: Michael Ruse: Naturalism and the Scientific Method
26: Taner Edis: Atheism and the Rise of Science
27: David P. Barash: Atheism and Darwinism
28: Victor J. Stenger: Atheism and the Physical Sciences
5: Atheism and the Social Sciences
29: Frank L. Pasquale and Barry A. Kosmin: Atheism and the Secularization Thesis
30: Miguel Farias: Psychology of Atheism
31: Jonathan Lanman: Atheism and Cognitive Science
32: Phil Zuckerman: Atheism and Societal Health
33: Melanie A. Brewster: Atheism, Gender, and Sexuality
34: Karen Hwang: Atheism, Health and Well-being
35: Ralph W. Hood and Zhuo Chen: Conversion and Deconversion
6: Global Expressions
36: Ariela Keysar and Juhem Navarro-Rivera: A World of Atheism: Global Demographics
37: Lois Lee: Western Europe
38: Ryan T. Cragun, Joseph H. Hammer, Jesse M. Smith: North America
39: Irena Borowik, Branko An%ci'c, Rados/law Tyra/la: Central and Eastern Europe
40: Samuli Schielke: Islamic World
41: Johannes Quack: India
42: Sarah Whylly: Japan
7: Atheism and the Arts
43: Bernard Schweizer: Literature
44: J. Sage Elwell: Visual Arts
45: Paul Bertagnolli: Music
46: Nina Power: Film

About the Author

Stephen Bullivant is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Ethics, St Mary's University College.

Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science, Florida State University.

Reviews

...a touchstone reference work in the study of atheism and related phenomena, and the editors and contributors are to be commended for producing an accessible refer-ence text containing world-leading, original scholarship that will stand the test of time.
*Christopher R. Cotter, Numen *

This collection will be warmly welcomed by philosophers of religion, philosophers of science, historians of ideas, andmetaphysicians for themany fresh angles it opens up on familiar difficulties with defining atheism ... the volume provides an especially gratifying richness of reflection on its strengths and weaknesses as a full-fledged philosophical outlook
*James Orr, Religious Studies*

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*Darren E. Sherkat, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion*

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