The New Atheism, Myth, and History : The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Johnstone, Nathan (Author)
Corporate Author:	ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:	Atheism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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 the Spanish 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.