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  title info:
    title: Atheism and love in the modern era
    sub title: practicing indifference
  name:
    name part: Dickinson, Colby
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: VerfasserIn
    role:
      role term: aut
  name:
    name part: Bloomsbury (Firm)
    role:
      role term: Verlag
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      role term: pbl
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (208 pages)
  abstract: Discussing the decline of faith and the rise of love in the modern era, Colby Dickinson proposes a critique of religious belief which addresses how a secular world can continue to mine religious traditions for their conceptual and emotional riches. Atheism and Love in the Modern Era argues that theism and atheism taken together can peel back the layers of abstraction, alienation, and disillusionment that always accompany our humanity in order to help us really see how it is to exist in this world. To illuminate this vision, Dickinson takes up the notion of love as a cultivation and practice of indifference as a letting go of one's identity--a crucial concept that unites both religion and atheism through a concerted effort to detach from them both. The book is organized into four sections, each situating the concept of love in relation to a distinct theme: the first outlines modern secularized versions of various religious concepts, such as technology in the place of miracles or art in the place of religious revelation. The second argues that in a pluralistic world, the actual, lived realities of various religious communities and persons defy the static categories and classifications grouped under the umbrella of 'religion'. The third section discusses and defines non-absolute love. The fourth section discusses how atheism, in its critiques of religion, misses the significance of de-centring the act of love. Dickinson elaborates his reflections through lucid engagement with a variety of thinkers including Zizek, Agamben, Irigaray, Derrida, Erich Fromm, Charles Taylor and Philip Kitcher. This is essential reading for those interested in popular debates around theism and atheism, as well as those concerned with the ways in which continental and analytic philosophy have addressed the continued significance of religious traditions
  note: Colby Dickinson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references
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  subject:
    topic: Atheism
  subject:
    topic: Theism
  subject:
    topic: Love
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Apathy
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Philosophical theology
  subject:
    topic: Athéisme
  subject:
    topic: Théisme
  subject:
    topic: Amour
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: Apathie
    topic: Aspect religieux
  subject:
    topic: Théologie philosophique
  subject:
    topic: atheism
  classification: BL626.4 .D53 2025
  classification: 205.677
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    title info:
      title: Atheism and love in the modern era
    name:
      name part: Dickinson, Colby
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025
    note: Druck-Ausgabe
    identifier: (DLC)2024044133
  identifier: 9781350475410 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1350475416
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: GBVCP
    record creation date: 250403
    record change date: 20250922005502.5
    record identifier: in00005663752
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng