Acknowledgements
Foreword, Richard Harries
Preface, Reza Aslan
Introduction: What is the New Atheism?, Amarnath Amarasingam
I. Religion and the New Atheism
Judaism and Atheism: The Challenge of Secular Humanism, Robert Platzner
Beating 'God' to Death: Radical Theology and the New Atheism, Jeffrey Robbins and Christopher Rodkey
Religion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in The End of Faith, Rory Dickson
II. Science and the New Atheism
What Has Atheism Ever Done for Science?, Steve Fuller
Cognitive Science and the New Atheism, William Sims Bainbridge
III. Sociology and the New Atheism
One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology of the New Atheism and Fundamentalism,
William A. Stahl
The New Atheism and Sociology: Why Here? Why Now? What Next?, Stephen Bullivant
The New Atheism and the Secularization Thesis, Michael Borer
The New Atheism and the Empowerment of American Freethinkers, Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith
IV. Philosophy, Ethics and the New Atheism
Ethics, Out-Group Altruism, and the New Atheism, Gregory R. Peterson
Disparate Destinations, Parallel Paths: An Analysis of Contemporary Atheist and Christian Parenting Literature, Jeff Nall
Is God a Hypothesis? The New Atheism, Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophical Confusion, Ryan Falcioni
Afterword, Mark Vernon
About the Authors
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