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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810335803321

Titolo

Being godless : ethnographies of atheism and non-religion / / edited by Ruy Llera Blanes and Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-78533-574-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in Social Analysis ; ; Volume 1.

Classificazione

BG 3000

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Irreligion

Atheism

Secularism

Ethnography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Godless People, Doubt, and Atheism -- Chapter 1 Ambivalent Atheist Identities: Power and Non-religious Culture in Contemporary Britain -- Chapter 2 Godless People and Dead Bodies: Materiality and the Morality of Atheist Materialism -- Chapter 3 Atheist Political Cultures in Independent Angola -- Chapter 4 Forget Dawkins: Notes toward an Ethnography of Religious Belief and Doubt -- Chapter 5 Antagonistic Insights: Evolving Soviet Atheist Critiques of Religion and Why They Matter for Anthropology -- Chapter 6 Confessional Anthropology -- Afterword: On Atheism and Non-Religion -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.