The New Atheism, Myth, and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion
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Beschreibung
Introduction: History and the New Atheism
A question only for science?
Virtuous evidentialism: explorers and hunter-gatherers
The New Atheism and history
A defence of history
Part 1 Black Legends
Introduction
1. Superstition and the Stake: Witch-hunting and the Terrible Consequences of Believing in the Supernatural
The illusion of polemical efficiency
Rationalist history and rationalist mythology
Numbers (and their meaning)
No witch-hunt without witchesThe witch pyres of 'the Inquisition'
Christianity and the witch-hunts
The lesson of the witch-hunt
2. Faith and the Stake: Heresy and Religious Totalitarianism
Why is persecution natural to religion?
Medieval heresy and the persecuting society
What was medieval heresy?
Searching for a newly old faith
Reform and heresy
The Cathars: did they exist, and what does it tell the New Atheism if they did not?
The Coming of the Inquisitions
Politics and persecution
The new elite and the war over orthodoxy
3. Chalking up Six Million Deaths to Religion: Appropriating the Holocaust
Whose Hitler?: the acid test of ethical claims in the God debate
Hitler's Bible and the Bible's Hitler
Trusting historians to do their job
Nazism as a political religion
The Holy Reich controversy
Part 2 Minds in Opposition
Introduction
4. The Rational Tradition and Atomism
Epistemological truths and weak mindsFilling in the details
Greek atomism in context
Nightmares of the Christian Mind
Christianity and the revival of atomism
Atomism, the Church and Galileo
5. Heroes and Martyrs: Witch-Hunting and the Dangers of Scepticism
How George Lincoln Burr's history of Dietrich Flade didn't make it into The End of Faith
Friedrich Spee and the Devil
Part 3 The Innocence of Atheism
Introduction
6. The Hostile Utopia: Atheist Oppression and the Assault on Religion in the USSR
The Soviet assault on religion
Only anti-clericalism?
The Soviet 'New Man' and the end of religion
History with the cycles left out
Desacralisation and didactic sacrilege
Utopian hostility: the psychological oppression of believers in the Soviet Union
7. From the Spanish Toca to the American Waterboard: the Strange Yardstick of Ethical Progress
Torture: then and perhaps now
Torture: Europe's rational innovation
The Harris method: a superior rationality?
Crimen exceptum
Islam as crimen exceptum
A new superior rationality, or old-fashioned moral panic?
8. Atheism, Religion and the Myth of Cultural Distance
The temptation to supernaturalism
Death and the temptation to religion
Resistance, regeneration and election
Belief: the twenty-first-century heresy
9. The Moderation of the Unfinished Thought: Militancy, Polemical Cavalierism and Atheisms
Hoping for the end of religion...and its consequences
The moderation of the unfinished thought
Religion as child abuse
Viruses of the mind, public health crises and containment protocols
Eigenschaften
Breite: | 155 |
Gewicht: | 552 g |
Höhe: | 219 |
Länge: | 25 |
Seiten: | 309 |
Sprachen: | Englisch |
Autor: | Nathan Johnstone |