Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
11. What Is New Atheism?
Atheism in Five Minutes - Teemu Taira
Christopher R. Cotter [+]
The Open University
Christopher Cotter is Staff Tutor (Lecturer) in Sociology & Religious Studies at The Open University. He is co-founder of The Religious Studies Project, co-editor of After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies (Routledge, 2016) and author of The Critical Study of Non-Religion: Discourse, Identification, Locality (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Description
“New Atheism” is a term that emerged at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It can refer to a variety of things, from specific works of particular (white male) authors, to a much broader discursive movement. Just how “new” this form of atheism is, and what impact it might have had, or continue to have, remain open questions and depend on who is doing the asking.