New York: Oxford University Press Inc., 2003. — 125 p. — (Very Short Introductions). It has been a pleasure and a privilege to write this book for the (until now at least) excellent Very Short Introductions series. In keeping with the ethos of this series I have aimed to keep the book readable and enjoyable, avoiding academic dryness, whilst at the same time endeavouring to...
New York: Sterling, 2016. — 298 p. What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God’s primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive — and worse! Originally conceived as a joint presentation between influential thinker and bestselling author Richard Dawkins and former evangelical...
Berkeley: Ulysses Press, 2008. — 248 p. The book consists of several smaller parts. In the first, Dan tells his story of going from Christian to atheist. In the second, he explains his rationale for being an atheist. That’s followed by a long series of arguments against Christianity. Finally, Dan discusses his Supreme Court case and the state of atheism in America today. The...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 1021 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-964465-0 Recent books by, among others, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have thrust atheism firmly into the popular, media, and academic spotlight. This so-called New Atheism is arguably the most striking development in western socio-religious culture of the past decade or...
Parsippany: American Atheist Press, 2004. — 386 p. Everything is here to help those who are already atheists better understand the logic of their lives and see Atheism's social and political implications.
Routledge, 2004. — 342 p. — ISBN: 0-203-67001-9 Reasoning about God Reformed Epistemology Ontological Arguments Cosmological Arguments Teleological Arguments Arguments to and from Miracles God and Morality Religious Experience Naturalism, Evolution and Rationality Prudential Arguments Arguments from Scale Problems about Evil Omnipotence Eternity and Omnipresence Omniscience
Oxford University Press, 2009. - 204 p. Heralded as the exponents of a 'new atheism', critics of religion are highly visible in today's media, and include the household names of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. David Fergusson explains their work in its historical perspective, drawing comparisons with earlier forms of atheism. Responding to the critics through...
Prometheus Books,2008. — 746 p. Many books that challenge religious beliefs from skeptical point of view take a combative tone that is almost guaranteed to alienate believers, or they present complex philosophical or scientific arguments that fail to reach average reader. Guy P.Harrison argues that is an ineffective way of trying to encourage people to develop critical thinking...
Da Capo Press, 2007. — 499 p. — ISBN: 978-0-306-81608-6, 978-1-840-02728-0. Hitchens, an avowed atheist and author of the bestseller God Is Not Great, is a formidable intellectual who finds the notion of belief in God to be utter nonsense. The author is clear in his introduction that religion has caused more than its fair share of world problems. "Religion invents a problem...
New York: Nation Books, 2006. — 366 p. Surprisingly, no book of quotations on God and religion by atheists and agnostics exists. Luckily, for the millions of American nonbelievers who have quietly stewed for years as the religious right made gains in politics and culture, the wait is over. Bestselling author Jack Huberman's zeitgeist sense has honed into the backlash building...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 308 p. This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discrimination, whilst the darker side of atheist history, such as its involvement in Stalinism, is...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 308 p. This book examines the misuse of history in New Atheism and militant anti-religion. It looks at how episodes such as the Witch-hunt, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust are mythologized to present religion as inescapably prone to violence and discrimination, whilst the darker side of atheist history, such as its involvement in Stalinism, is...
Prometheus Books, 2014. - 300 p. This is the first anthology ever published to feature the writings of leading eighteenth-century thinkers on the subjects of atheism, religion, freethought, and secularism. Editor S. T. Joshi has compiled notable essays by writers from Germany, France, England, and early America. The contributors include Denis Diderot (a principal author of the...
Greenwood, 2008. - 476 p. In the opinion of many critics and philosophers, we are entering an age of atheism marked by the waning of Christian fundamentalism and the flourishing of secular thought. Through alphabetically arranged entries written by expert contributors, this book profiles 27 iconic figures of unbelief whose ideas have shaped American society over the last 200...
New York: Macmillan, 2019. — 738 p. Theism and Atheism: Opposing Arguments in Philosophy is a coedited publication, with each of us heading up separate editorial boards representing theism and atheism. The format of the work is such that an essay on a topic (e.g., Religious Experience, Miracles, Our Universe, Human Beings, Science) by an author taking the side of theism is...
20 p. First edition: Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto (NY: Freethought Press, 1954) 64 pp Joseph Lewis (June 11, 1889 - 1968) was an American freethinker and atheist activist, publisher, and litigator. During the mid-twentieth century, he was one of America’s most conspicuous public atheists, the other being Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. In simple, yet bold and vigorous language...
18 p. First edition: Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto (NY: Freethought Press, 1954) 64 pp Joseph Lewis (June 11, 1889 - 1968) was an American freethinker and atheist activist, publisher, and litigator. During the mid-twentieth century, he was one of America’s most conspicuous public atheists, the other being Emanuel Haldeman-Julius. In simple, yet bold and vigorous language...
Publication details not specified. Language: English. Author Dr. Jason Long is a former Christian who condenses the most significant biblical problems into this single volume. Unlike other books in the field that delve into only one topic, this manuscript, comprehensible even to those who have never opened a Bible, is a full-fledged attempt to demonstrate that God’s supposed...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 320 p. In The Cambridge Companion to Atheism, eighteen of the world’s leading scholars present original essays on various aspects of atheism: its history, both ancient and modern, defense, and implications. The topic is examined in terms of its implications for a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, religion, feminism,...
Prometheus Books, 2003. — 820 p. The Nonreligious Foundation of Morality The Christian Foundation of Morality The Meaning Life without God Christianity and the Meaning of Life
Temple University Press, 1991. — 287 p.— ISBN: 0-87722-767-5 In this systematic philosophical critique of the major tenets of Christianity, Michael Martin examines the semantic and epistemological bases of religious claims and beliefs. Beginning with a comparison and evaluation of the Apostles’ Creed, the Niceno-Chalcedonian Creed, and the Athanasian Creed, Martin discusses the...
Routledge, 2018. — 166 p. New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political dimensions. This book analyses the political aspects of new atheism and offers an analysis that is...
Prometheus Books, 2012. — 755. — ISBN: 978-1-61614-582-8 Speaking Ill of Jesus The History of the Jesus Story You Already Don't Believe in Jesus: The Salem Witch Trials Believing the Believers The Repetears and Money -Bag Problem Abducted by Aliens and a False Murder Conviction The Counterevidence Problem Why Are All of the Gods Hiding? Would God Do Miracles? Five Hundred Dead...
InterVarsity Press, 2007. — 115 p. "The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the denial of the divine" is a book by Christian theologian Alister McGrath and psychologist Joanna Collicutt McGrath. It is written from a Christian perspective as a response to arguments put forth in The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. McGrath criticizes Dawkins for what he perceives to be...
Berkeley, Ulysses Press, 2006. - 272 Is there really a God? or does God just exist in our heads? Is the Bible truly God's word? or is it a jumble of fanciful myths? Atheist Universe details why God is unnecessary to explain the universe’s diversity, organization and beauty. Using simple, straightforward logic, this book rebuts every argument that claims to “prove” God’s existence.
The University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 263 p. ike a lot of good stories, this one begins with a rumor: in 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book — "De tribus impostoribus", or the "Treatise of the Three Impostors"—in which...
American Atheist Press, 2011. — 427 p. — ISBN: 978-1-57884-017-5. New Testament scholar Robert M. Price, one of America's leading authorities on the Bible, here summarizes much of the scholarship that has led him and a growing number of modern scholars to conclude that Christ -- a partial synonym for Jesus of Nazareth -- is mythical. Most usefully, Price has assembled evidence...
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2012. — 288 p. We can’t avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life — and the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing, surprisingly sanguine take on a world without god. The science that makes us nonbelievers, he demonstrates, tells us the nature of...
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011 A book for nonbelievers who embrace the reality-driven life.We can't avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life-and the nature of reality. Philosopher Alex Rosenberg maintains that science is the only thing that can really answer them — all of them. His bracing and ultimately upbeat book takes physics seriously as the complete...
e LIBRO, – 32 p. – januaro 2003. – ISBN: 91-7303-184-4. Teksto de konferenco de la 6-a de marto 1927. Esperantigis Robert Pontnau. Aranĝis: Franko Luin. Enhavo. Kion signifas kristano? La ekzisto de Dio. La argumento de la unua kialo. La argumento de la natura leĝo. La argumento de la plano. La moralaj argumentoj favoraj al Dieco. La argumento de la rimedo al maljusteco. La...
Open Court, 2008. — 331 p. — (Series: Ideas Explained). Atheism Explained explores the claims made both for and against the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the world can only be explained by an intelligent creator; that the universe had to start somewhere; telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate the existence of a...
Prometheus Books, 2007, 294 pp, ISBN: 1-59102-481-1 Physicist Victor J. Stenger contends that, if God exists, some evidence for this existence should be detectable by scientific means, especially considering the central role that God is alleged to play in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans. Treating the traditional God concept, as conventionally presented in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 323 p. This book examines the importance of the Enlightenment for understanding the secular outlook of contemporary Western societies. It shows the new ways of thinking about religion that emerged during the 17th and 18th centuries and have had a great impact on how we address problems related to religion in the public sphere today. Based on the...
Continuum Publishing, 2010. — 204 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8264-2493-8 Introduction: What this Book Isn't and What It Is What is Atheism? The Atheist Worldview Refuting Theistic " Proofs " Why God Can't Exist The Natural History of Religion A Godless Morality Sysiphus' Question An Atheist Spirituality?
Oxford University Press, 2016. - 337 p. The number of non-religious men and women has increased dramatically over the past several decades. Yet scholarship on the non-religious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge, The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analytical discussion of existing social scientific research on the...
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