1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910568261503321

Autore

Rosenfeldt Adrian

Titolo

The God Debaters : New Atheist Identity-Making and the Religious Self in the New Millennium / / by Adrian Rosenfeldt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030967413

9783030967406

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

211.8

211.80905

Soggetti

Religion and science

Social sciences - Philosophy

Identity politics

Religion and Sciences

Social Philosophy

Identity Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2. Richard Dawkins: Public Professor of Science -- 3. The Mythos of Karen Armstrong -- 4. Christopher Hitchens' New Enlightenment -- 5. Terry Eagleton's Revolution -- 6. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West. Through a close study of prominent English God debaters Richard Dawkins, Karen Armstrong, Christopher Hitchens, and Terry Eagleton, Adrian Rosenfeldt demonstrates that New Atheist and religious apologist ideas and arguments about God, science, and identity are driven by mythic autobiographical narratives and Protestant or Catholic cultural heritage. This study is informed by criticism of the New Atheist polemic as being positivistic, and the religious apologists as propagating "sophisticated theology." In both cases, the God debaters are perceived as disassociating themselves from human lived experience. It is through reconnecting the God debaters' intellectual ideas to their cultural and social background that the God debate can be grounded in a



recognisable human reality that eludes reductive distinctions and disembodied abstractions. Adrian Rosenfeldt is a teaching associate at La Trobe University and Melbourne University, Australia. His research interests and teaching involve classical sociology, cultural sociology, sociology of mental illness, modernism, and criminology. His current research focuses on different forms of humanism and identity-making as recognisable in the twenty-first century God debate.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973513303321

Autore

Savage Michael <1959->

Titolo

Globalization and belonging / / Mike Savage, Gaynor Bagnall, Brian Longhurst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2005

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 2005

London : , : SAGE, , 2005

ISBN

9786610369256

9781412933377

1412933374

9781280369254

1280369256

9780761949855

0761949852

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 233 p.) : maps

Collana

Theory, culture & society

Altri autori (Persone)

BagnallGaynor

LonghurstBrian <1956->

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Group identity

Globalization

Sociology, Urban

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-225) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Maps -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 Global Change and Local



Belonging -- 2 The Limits of Local Attachment -- 3 Parenting, Education and Elective Belonging -- 4 Suburbia and the Aura of Place -- 5 The Ambivalence of Urban Identity: 'Manchester, so much to answer for' -- 6 Work Cultures and Social Ties -- 7 Mediascapes in the Mediation of the Local and the Global -- 8 Cosmopolitanism, Diaspora and Global Reflexivity -- Conclusion -- Appendix: List of Interviewees -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on long-term empirical research into cultural practices lifestyle and identities, this volume explores how far-reaching global changes are articulated locally. The authors address key sociological issues of stratification as analysis alongside 'cultural' issues of identity, difference, choice and lifestyle.