New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates

Whether understood in a narrow sense as the popular works of a small number of (white male) authors, or as a larger more diffuse movement, twenty-first century scholars, journalists, and activists from all ¿sides¿ in the atheism versus theism debate, have noted the emergence of a particular form of atheism frequently dubbed ¿New Atheism¿. The present collection has been brought together to provide a scholarly yet accessible consideration of the place and impact of ¿New Atheism¿ in the contemporary..