Being Godless

Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
Herausgeber: Blanes, Roy Llera; Oustinova-Stjepanovic, Galina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. In doing so, the volume contributes to a critical understanding of the processes of disengagement from religion and reveals the challenges and paradoxes that godless people face.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781785336287
• ISBN-10: 1785336282
• Artikelnr.: 47484603

Autorenporträt

Roy Llera Blanes is a Ramon y Cajal Fellow at the Spanish National Research Council.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism
Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Chapter 1. Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture
in Contemporary Britain
Lois Lee
Chapter 2. Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of
Atheist Materialism
Jacob Copeman and Johannes Quack
Chapter 3. Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes and Abel Paxe
Chapter 4. Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief
and Doubt
Paul-François Tremlett and Fang-Long Shih
Chapter 5. Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of
Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology
Sonja Luehrmann
Chapter 6. Confessional Anthropology
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Chapter 7. On Atheism and Non-religion: An Afterword
Matthew Engelke
Bibliograpghy
Index